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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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