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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
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
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole

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