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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Pray look better, Sir… those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. – Miguel de Cervantes

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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Platos cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and dont know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? – Desiderius Erasmus

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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. – Yasutani Roshi

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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