"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
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"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."
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"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."
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"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions."
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"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again."
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"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."
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"Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others."
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"The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death."
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"There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal."
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"It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech."
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"Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses."
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"Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice."
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"No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy."
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"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."
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"The whole of virtue consists in its practice."
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"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."
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"It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish."
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"For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie."
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"There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it."
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"As you have sown so shall you reap."
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