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"Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason."
Abstinence
"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument."
Argument
"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
Expectation
"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."
Novelty
"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."
God
"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
Defeat
"Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it."
Men
"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
Mind
"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities."
Men
"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart."
Heart
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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Personal Development
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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Personal Development
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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Personal Development
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