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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality

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