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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

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The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

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It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

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Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

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Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

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You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.

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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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