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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity

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