A belief is not true because it is useful.
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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