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Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst
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
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Beginning Need Philosophy
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Alive Dog Himself Live Understand
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Angel Body Force Self Love
Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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Science Sick Tree
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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Knowledge Understand Word

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