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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.
Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all.
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.
Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?
The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.
It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.
If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.