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There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

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Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.

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Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.

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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain

Born: November 18, 1882
Died: April 28, 1973 (aged 90)
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