"Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise."
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"Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative."
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"Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light."
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"One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage."
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"As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives."
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"So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them."
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"As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise."
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"In all superstition wise men follow fools."
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"The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order."
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"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
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"It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves."
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
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"It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one."
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"He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]"
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"What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead."
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"That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise."
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"A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion."
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"The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."
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"It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is."
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"Literature is the voice of the human heart."
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