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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
I will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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Goodness Reason Teaching
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking

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