In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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