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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Awake Deep Private Share Sleep World
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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Burn Demand Deserve Doctor Fee Service Sick Torture
You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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Boundary Death Life Soul Travel
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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Agree Couple Disagree Relationship
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Danger Encounter Prosperity
The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.
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Conflict Fools God Harmony Man People Poet Woman
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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Judgment Steer True Wisdom
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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Investigation Love Wisdom
The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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Atheist Cosmic Creation God Man Process Universe
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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Alcohol Hard Hide Ignorance Relax Wine
Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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Death Immortal Live Mortal
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
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Character Creation Life Patient
The sun is the width of a human foot.
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Feet Human One Liner Sun
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Divine Knowledge Lost
Dog bark at what they don’t understand.
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Bark Dog Insult Stupidity Understand
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Abundance Knowledge Men Teaching Wise

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