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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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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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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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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Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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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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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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