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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"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."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

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

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

"A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions."

"A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it."
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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity."

"Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you'd live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero."

"I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."
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