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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. Lao Tzu

Beautiful Good Perseverance Together Supreme Coming Sublimity Just Succeeding Actions Agreement Foundation

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Sacrifice Important Become Able Could Important Thing Any Moment Thing

The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them! Maimonides

God Will Free Free Will Own Numerous Complain Our Faults Evils Ourselves Relief Seek Individual Due Existing Inflict Being Which Ascribe Them Far Persons Themselves Who Connected Exposed Suffer Defects

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. Meister Eckhart

Darkness Light Sympathy Finds Sorrow Truly Then Us Nearest

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. Montesquieu

Government Deterioration Almost Principles Always Begins Decay

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. Montesquieu

Be Happy Happy People Difficult Think Other Would Would-Be Easy Only Almost Since Always Than Want Wanted Happier Them

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. Paul Kurtz

Life Death Fruit Meaning Of Life Living Tree Tree Of Life On The Contrary Hidden Some Eating Only Mysterious Discovered Contrary After Meaning Meaning Of Realm Fully Creatively Found Now Here

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Universe Joint Observed Observer Know Product

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You Together Will Other Recreate Exist Forever After Each Suffer

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Truth Good Me Fear Independence Sacrifice Holding Conviction Believe Else Everything Everything Else One Thing Finer About Oneself Points Envisage Opinions Intellectual Persecution Questions End Than May Which Less Many Thing

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato

Virtuous Those Seeking Most Content Without Being Themselves Who Appear

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. Plato

Mind Thinking Talking Itself

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato

First Other Tyrant He Protector Springs Which Root Appears

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world? Ramana Maharshi

Yourself World Understanding Without Understand Trying Use

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world. Ramana Maharshi

Service World Own Our Render Greatest Self-Realization

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. Raoul Vaneigem

Positive Life Love Class Struggle People Everyday Life Understanding Revolution Mouth Everyday Corpse Class Struggle About Constraints Talk Without Referring Refusal Subversive Explicitly Who

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil

Great Reality Detached Someone Only Attachment Attained Who Illusions

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. Simone Weil

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard

Evil Despairing Boredom Oneself Refusal Root

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. Sun Tzu

Defense General Attack He Know Does Opponent Hence Whose Defend

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle

Work Good Man Business Water Good Man Unknown Secretly Hidden Vein Like Underground Making Green Done Ground Flowing

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Thomas Carlyle

Great Ambition Boredom Rather Got Exhaustion Than Die

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