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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

Leo Tolstoy

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Belong Death Fear Himself Inspirational Limitation Man Suffering
If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Attitude Change Enjoyment Job Work
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Depend Happiness Inspirational
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Desire Fear She Woman
Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Alone Eternal General God Love Retrurn Source United
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Cover Empty Invention Love Place Respect
Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Boredom Desire One Liner Truth
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Capable Grief Heal Love Necessary People Serve Sorrow Strong
The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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God Kingdom One Liner
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Doubt Principle Time
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Gold Growth Obtain Truth Wash
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Belong Bread Eat Life Pieces Share Starve
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Business Inspirational Patience Powerful Time Warrior
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Admit Destroy Human Life Possible Reason Rule

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