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Charles de Secondat

"Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer."

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"Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer."

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Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

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"My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death."

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"Without love, life is unsustainable."

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"A genius is a person who is more observant and has more patience."

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"The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor."

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"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

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"A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem by causing many...A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense."

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"As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have made myself a dream to dreamof its rising, that has gentled my nights.Let me desire and wish well the lifethese trees may live when Ino longer rise in the morningsto be pleased with the green of themshining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them."

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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."
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"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."
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"Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws."
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"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."
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"Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."
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"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."
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"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"
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"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."
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"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."
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"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."
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