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"No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."

"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."
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