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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing

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