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"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."
People

"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."
Death

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
Time

"Weaklings must lie."
Lie

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
Life

"Live your life and forget your age."
Life

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."
Life

"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."
Man

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
Action

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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Personal Development

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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Personal Development

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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Personal Development

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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Personal Development

"Conscience is God present in man."
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Personal Development

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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Personal Development

"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid."
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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
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