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"The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?"
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"God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness."

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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."

"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."

"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."

"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."

"There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others."

"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."

"Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."

"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."
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