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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.
Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment.
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.
Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.