"There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change."
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"The end of desire is the end of sorrow."
"Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry"
"At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself."
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
"Violence begins where knowledge ends."
"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
"One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence."
"I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70."
"The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner."
"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."
"The end is nothing; the road is all."
"Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends."
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
"Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners."
"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
"The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived."
"My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy."
"I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy."