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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

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Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
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Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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Body Man Philosophy Sin
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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Easy Live Necessary
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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Philosophy Truth Virtue World
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Charity Help Himself Man
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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Himself Man View Youth
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Angel Mission Trust
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk

In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

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