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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

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God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

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The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

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One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

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He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

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Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

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To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

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A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

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With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

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Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

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