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The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Sweetest Pleasures Hardest Won
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We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain

We Authors Woes Griefs
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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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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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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 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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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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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

Stupid Pain Future Present
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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

Soul Way Body Lives
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No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Nation Freedom Revolution People
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A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Country Territory Foundation Fellowship
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To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn

Mistaken Truth Heaven Hell
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When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do

People You Criticism Learn
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Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Speak Only Bring Honor
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Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

Meditate Solitude Soul Attains
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Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Wordly Love Heart Write
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Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Wants Artist Pictures What
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Our senses are fairies who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to music, which makes the mute agitation of nature a harmony

Senses Miracle Music Nature
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Patriostism Religion Wars Hatched
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art Beautiful Fashion Time
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Music Something Feelings Motivated
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

True realism Revealing Habit Prevents
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life

Friendship Shadow Increases Life
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Crimes People History Man
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It’s more important than ever that we build a political movement in which all people feel seen, heard, and included.

More important We build Political movement All people
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All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

Morality System Rules Individual
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Admirable Fortitude Tolerate Wealth
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Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

Music Beautiful God World
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Gratitude Duty Right Expect
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Powerful You Matter Somebody
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Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

Religion Spiritual Values Corrupted
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Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established

Governments Right People Destructive
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The older I get,the more I realize the importance of walking away from people and situations which threaten my peace of mind, self respect, values and self-worth.

I realize The importance Walking away From people
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Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Difficulties Wiser Nature God
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Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes

Law Time Humanity Mantle
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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Age Live Knowledge Perfection
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The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.

Internet's Force Media Consumers
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We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.

Respect Rights Game Life
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There can be freedom from fear only when there is self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.

Freedom Fear Self-knowledge Wisdom
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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Ideologies Religious Political Word
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Success is the completion and the fulfillment of the purpose for which you were created.

Success The completion The fulfillment The purpose
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I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

Lessons Fail Want Love
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You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about your pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here, and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.

Life Future Love Fear
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I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Think Intelligent Human being Soul
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel

Poetry Achieve Deliver People
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Knowledge Is acquired Under compulsion No hold
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And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

Books Health Habits Food
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To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifferenc

Sense Worth Self-respect Love
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Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.

Character Responsibility Life Self-respect
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