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What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.
Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.
Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.
Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang
The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.
Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?
Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.
Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.
The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.
Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.
Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.
What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.
No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.