"Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same."
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"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."
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"You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go."
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"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
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"Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed."
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"Knowledge is not intelligence."
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"Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life."
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"From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars."
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"Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within"
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"Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent.""
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"The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself."
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"If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it."
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"It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion."
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"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
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"Not I but the world says it: All is one."
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"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."
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"You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul."
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"Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things."
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"Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still."
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"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
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