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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
A wise man should have money in his head; but not in his heart.
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
A man is what he wills himself to be.
Experience by itself is not science.
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them, for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
Not all consciousness is knowledge (there are states of affective consciousness, for example), but all knowing consciousness can be knowledge only of its object.
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.