If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?
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The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
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There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
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A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.
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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
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Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
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Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
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Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.
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If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
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Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
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