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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
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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 is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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 are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick

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