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Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Words are illusions.
Your mind is nirvana.
The belly has no ears.
All phenomena are empty.
Peace is obtained by war.
Freud was just a novelist.
Painting is silent poetry.
Character is inured habit.
To have a body is to suffer.
A fool cannot hold his tongue.
After darkness comes the light.
Beauty is the flower of virtue.
Reason speaks and feeling bites
Philosophy is an act of living.
Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
No confession brings perfection.
Philosophy is the art of living.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Character is long-standing habit.
Consuming is an endless treadmill.
No evil is great if it is the last.
Sanctification is not regeneration.
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
I see the cure is not worth the pain.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
Come back with your shield - or on it
Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.
I never read in bed, only in my study.
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Peace is the product of justice and love.
Character is simply habit long continued.
The man, the art, the work--it is all one.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
For the wise man, every day is a festival.
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
