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A weak-minded person lives an animal life. The animal does not know death. Look at the hen, for example: how protective she is of her chickens! However, as soon as the chicken flips over, he leaves it without regret. If he understood death like a middle-class person, wouldn't he feel sorry and cry? He would know that his child had lost his life. But he who has no idea about death has no idea about life either. And now we look at the strong-minded man. He is brave precisely because he feels that the body is not everything. He feels that he is more soul than body. The more spiritual a person is, the less value the body has for him. The heroes, the great heroes of world history, were all spiritual people. All to a thread.

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A weak-minded person lives an animal life. The animal does not know death. Look at the hen, for example: how protective she is of her chickens! However, as soon as the chicken flips over, he leaves it without regret. If he understood death like a middle-class person, wouldn't he feel sorry and cry? He would know that his child had lost his life. But he who has no idea about death has no idea about life either. And now we look at the strong-minded man. He is brave precisely because he feels that the body is not everything. He feels that he is more soul than body. The more spiritual a person is, the less value the body has for him. The heroes, the great heroes of world history, were all spiritual people. All to a thread.

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Hungarian

"A gyönge elméjű ember állati életet él. Az állat nem ismeri a halált. Nézd a tyúkot például: mennyire védi a csirkéit! Mihelyt azonban felfordul a csirke, sajnálkozás nélkül otthagyja. Ha úgy értené a halált, mint a középrendű ember, ugye hogy sajnálná, siratná? Tudná, hogy a gyermeke elvesztette az életét. De akinek a halálról nincsen fogalma, annak az életről sincsen. És most nézzük az erős elméjű embert. Az meg éppen azért bátor, mert érzi, hogy a test nem mindene. Azt érzi, hogy ő inkább lélek, mint test. Minél lelkibb az ember, annál kisebb érték neki a test. A hősök, a világtörténelem nagy hősei mind lelki emberek voltak. Mind egy szálig."

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