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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.

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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
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Beginning Need Philosophy
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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God Himself Knowledge Philosophy Religious
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
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
Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
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Disease Fools Science Sick Tree Value
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
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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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
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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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.

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