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All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
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It is later than you think. May it not be true for this Sundial.
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The free man never thinks of escape.
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One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
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What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.
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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
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There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.
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Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.
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Ivy. Good outside the house, bad inside.
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It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convictions.
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