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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

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