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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

Time Death Alive
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Jealousy Pain Feels Loves
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Contented mind Blessing Man World
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

Books Legacies Mankind Generation
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Sculpture Marble Education Soul
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.

Deserve Praise
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover

Human life Friendship Enjoyment Discover
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Misery Nature Evil Temper
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He who hesitates is lost.

Hesitates Lost
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Nothing Directly Soul Beauty
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Valuable Man Attention Infirmities
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Question Pleasures Life Happy
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Imperfection Gentle Quiet Defects
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Sunshine Smiles Humanity Life's
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures

Blessings Pains Losses Patience
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True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation

Compassion Existence Creature Sensation
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station

Content Good Honor Private
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Love Life Grows Soul
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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Crime Contemtible World Inconsistency
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Easy Circumstances Enemies Innovations
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading Mind Excercise Body
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Health Cheerfulness Beget
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Music Good Mortals Heaven
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge Virtue Truly Raises
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion

Mind Man Power Dominion
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Artificial Intelligence Natural Stupidity
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Riches Pride Luxury Heart
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Nature Purpose Uselessly
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear

Life Dream Fear
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All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.

Idealisation Life Beautify Destroy
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Belief Evil Men Wickedness
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

Facing it Way Get through
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Gossip Claims Like Enjoys
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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Only Nothing Mistakes Suppose
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

Life Character Expression Belief
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Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Grief Violence Form Apathy
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Words Foes Reality
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility

Move Deeply Bounds Sensibility
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Writing Lost Truth Mind
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

Afraid Want History Something
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The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one.

Man Illusions
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Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious.

Curiosity Forms Self-revelation Mysterious
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Action Enemy Friend Illusions
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence

Path Aspiration Human being Existence
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Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

Press Government Play
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A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

Nation Religion Man Breath
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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

Lie Repeating People Believe
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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Propaganda Manipulated Confident Free will
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Everything is what you make of it, even yourself

Everything Make Yourself
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Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
Man Honors Conquers Defends
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