"Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true."
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"If a string has one end, it has another."
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"Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it."
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"Better than a long speech is a single quietening word."
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"Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth."
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"True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift."
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"Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . ."
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"To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet."
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"Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge."
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"If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves."
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"When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do."
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"Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness."
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"A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains."
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"All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!"
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"If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements."
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"Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill."
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"A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip."
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"O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful."
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"Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind."
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"He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky."
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