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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World

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