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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joys of others.
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When people felt they had a right to seek out Christ before the torment, and in the fullness of his joy—it was too late; the cross had overcome Christ himself; it was Christ crucified that people continued to see and teach. And thus it is that religion came to plunge the world into gloom.
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Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
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Born:
November 22, 1869
Died:
February 19, 1951
(aged 81)
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