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Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
Enjoying life isn't about finding the answers, but living the questions.
Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
I'm just short for my weight. By rights I should measure eight foot three.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.
The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.
So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.
The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.
I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.