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“The less heart, the more comfort.”

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Ninon de L'Enclos, born on November 10, 1620 and died on October 17, 1705, was a French author known for her novels that focused on love, adventure, and moral discourse. Her works were highly popular among readers of her time. more

“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.”

World Mind May States Happiness Freedom Pleasure Meditation Concepts Contrary Pursuit Noise Bliss Formulas State Of Mind Brutality Searching For Happiness Uninvited

Book:Freedom, Love, and Action

Source: Freedom, Love, and Action

“Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.”

Mind Mother Baby Kissing

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.”

Impression Affliction Stamps Furnaces

Author:Pierre Bayle

“Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.”

Dies Individual Nations Civilization

Book:Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini

Source: Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini

“The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.”

Men Earth Duty Individuality Collectives Association Epoch Initiate Reformers Omnipotent

Book:Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini...: Autobiographical and political V.2,4,6, Critical and literary

Source: Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini...: Autobiographical and political V.2,4,6, Critical and literary

“Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.”

Firsts Moral Principles Materials Revolution Spheres Bayonets

Book:Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles

Source: Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles

“In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.”

Humans Soul Light Beautiful Lying Sides Beauty Sun Creation Materials Source Calling Elements Investing Lovely Poetic Human Soul Hue

Author:Giuseppe Mazzini

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