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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe

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