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Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Desires Pain Torment Enjoyment
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Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.

Man Believe Power Destiny
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Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Love Poet View Silent
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We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

Love Reason Cease Manner
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The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned

Educate Read Travel Learned
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From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Love Sad Disease Affection
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The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Philosopher Person Pleasures Sorrow
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Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it

Man Free Believe
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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Love Pleasure Immortal Fantasy
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The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Man Power Nature Wise
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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury

Worship God Action Respect
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

Mind Human being Examine Memory
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Friends Fortune Power Gratitude
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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Man Free Actions Passion
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Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life

Worthy Life Subject
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They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

Youth Kind Good Smile
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I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent

Food Constitution Health Excellent
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Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess
Happy Life Treasure Possess
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If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Want People Laugh Serious
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A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

Man Love Words Fool
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The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

Forgets Forgive Heart Mind
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God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer

God Admit Possibility Suffer
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The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Rebellion City Wise Government
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To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Kiss Absorb Essence Person
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Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

Enjoy Present Future Laugh
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After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms

Beautiful Woman Mind Lover
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It's clear to me that if we raise children with no moral compass, we are planting the seeds of our own destruction.

Clear Children Moral Destruction
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God takes attendance every day.

God Attendance Everyday
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If you don't change, you're dead or dead inside

You Change Dead
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Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.

Life Fun Laugh Willing
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Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

Life Mistakes Faults Grow
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Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.

Remember Come Led Sunshine
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Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

Strengths Weakness Share People
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You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore

You Fully Until Anymore
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Application of your faith will change your life
Application Faith Change Life
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You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives

You Love Mother Father
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...no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.

No one Passed Journey Wishes
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Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

Duty Truths Matter Cost
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Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

Everyone Ponder Silence Truth
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We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

System Corrupted Justice Blind
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I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear

God Hit Whisper Ear
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Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

Good Heart Brain Conservative
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Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

Anger Truth Forgive Love
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Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

Fall Believing Ideology Flaws
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If you don’t find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.

Find Leader Meant Lead
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Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

Morality Virtue Socirty Possible
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If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves

Like People Trust Run away
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There's a big difference between not knowing the truth and not liking it.

Difference Knowing Truth Liking
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Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.

Everyone Feel Loved Accomplish
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The Second Amendment, like all of our rights, is reliant on a moral and virtuous people. Without that, nothing else matters. Man can not rule himself if... moral sentiment is missing.

Rights Moral People Matters
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