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The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
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 Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
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Application Encouragement Feeling
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

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