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Where children are, there is the golden age.

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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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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 an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
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
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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