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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage

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