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

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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
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
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing

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