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When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
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Modern psychology recognizes what Jesus taught centuries ago: Hate divides the personality and love in an amazing and inexorable way unites it.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation": this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind; don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
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