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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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Freedom Frightened Involvement People Responsiblity
History is just new people making old mistakes.
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History Mistake Old People
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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Believe Convince Death Immoral Unconscious
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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Discrimination Forfeit Injustice Love Men Object Value Worth
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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Alive Bury Die Emotion Express Happiness Pain People Ugly
Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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Freedom Past Remember
There are no mistakes.
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Mistakes One Liner
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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Ability Inspirational Mature Postpone
When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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Environment Height Interest Love Lover Relationship Sufficient
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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Love Reflection Throw Value
The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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Funny Masterbation Sarcastic Shame
Without love we fall ill.
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Ill Love One Liner
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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Audience Decision Happiness Knowledge Magic Power Sorrow Student Teacher Words
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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Funny Human Being Love Open Person Refuse
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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Belief Decline Fruit Inspirational Knowledge Men Religious
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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Bite Capable Dog Enemy Friendship Hate Love People Pure Quite
Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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Deprivation Love Regard
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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Bring Disappointment Finding Hard Impossible Life Pain Task
Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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Desire Love Relationship
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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Complex Conduct Direct Elimination Man World
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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Children Equality Grow Up Himself Oppressive Pleasure Superior
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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Deep Expectation Need Slave Want
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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Future Illusion Knowledge Science Suppose
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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Discover Error Failure Motivational Truth
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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Man Soft Weak Woman
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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Book Burn Content Past Progress
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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