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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains!

He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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