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

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You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking

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