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Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.
Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.
If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
I hate to be sporty and athletic. I wish that I could be, but I just wasn't born that way.
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.
You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment.
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.
To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.
I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.
I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.