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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.
In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.
You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.
Power floats like money, like language, like theory.
The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.
My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
If someone hates you, they won't ask you for things.
Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.
If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.
The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
How do I know about the world? By what is within me.
...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.
Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.
I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.
Without going outside, you may know the whole world!
Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.
Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.
Going on means going far, going far means returning.
A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.