Zhuangzi
Philosopher
"The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by."
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Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher, Writer
"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."
Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness."
Zhuangzi
Philosopher
"The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up."
Zhuangzi
Philosopher
"We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures."
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"To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time."
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"The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness."
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"Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found."
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"A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone."
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"The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage."
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"He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually."
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"Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you."
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"The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage."
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"Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him."
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"The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other."
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"The sage acts by doing nothing."
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"Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb."
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"The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting."
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"The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side.""
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"What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?"
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"He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong."
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"The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own."
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"The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself."
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"If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were."
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"The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness."
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