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Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.
Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.
Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
You can never learn anything that you did not already know
One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.
Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.
If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.
Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.
Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.
The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.
When black America is on the move, America is on the move.
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.
You can't do a good job unless you're keen on it yourself.
The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.