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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.
How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?
If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.
Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.
The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left
If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
I can't tell whether I am living in a dream or a nightmare.
Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.
Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance
The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.
To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.
It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.