"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
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"In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others."
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"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."
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"The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious."
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"When we face our fears, we can find our freedom."
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"Limits, like fear, is often an illusion."
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"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
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"It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse."
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"To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life."
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"There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose."
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"I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk."
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"As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through."
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"I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them."
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"We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened."
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"Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice."
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"To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals."
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"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
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"There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear."
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"Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job."
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"Fear could never make virtue."
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