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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature

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