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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it. Annie Besant
Mother First Every Constantly Reconstruction Undergoing Fresh Built Passing Continually Materials Womb Up Decay Human Tiny Form Human Body Process Body Molecules Moment Away Streaming
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. Annie Besant
Man Science Atoms Active Living Other Latent Temporarily Case Only Only Difference Mysterious Between Dead Force Materialist Difference Regards Body United
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. Annie Besant
Truth Day Knowledge Pure Religions Allegorical Noble Highly Were Forms Full Profound
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline. Annie Besant
Man Soul Training Discipline Year Increase Immensely Born Faculties Develop Faculty He Him Within His Mathematical May After Which Capacity Certain Belonging
The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta. Annie Besant
Conversation States Definitely Buddha Spoke Clearly Over His Again
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood. Anthony Collins
Truth Good Respect Good And Evil Evil Willing Judging Falsehood Same
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. Antisthenes
Gifts Marriages Wedding Excessive Arise Quarrels Often Bridal
Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself. Apollonius of Tyana
Money Honor Master Virtue He Principle Himself Masters Does Said Person Creates Many Plato Rejoice
All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it. Apollonius of Tyana
Earth Mine Through Over Over It Go Right
Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them. Apollonius of Tyana
Time Good Manners Good Manners Another Another Time End Begin Them Your Keep
Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony. Apollonius of Tyana
Cause Increase Cares Lighten Since Gluttony Festivals Diseases
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part. Apollonius of Tyana
Soul Living Medicine Else Must Tend Higher Part Most Well Said Godlike Diseased Arts Being Unhealthy Should Body Thing Living Thing
When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging. Apollonius of Tyana
Will Sail Digging Complete Neither See Crossed Having Through Him Praise His Nor Review Achievements
If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand. Apollonius of Tyana
You Problems Will Practice Matters Duty Difficult Settle Furnish Solutions Only Know Beforehand Conduct Them Hard Even
Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval. Apollonius of Tyana
Nature Learning Practice Thanks Virtue Approval May Deserve
Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them. Apollonius of Tyana
Wisdom Law Unless City Contains Also Equivalent Subject Stones Theaters Them Useless Such Things Paintings Things
If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know. Apollonius of Tyana
Man Fear Coward Superior Philosopher Has-Been Shall Hail Know Him Been Left Account Any Us Teach Who
In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs. Apollonius of Tyana
Man Seen Beast Wild Tyrant Arabia India Crooked Horrible Beasts Armed Heads Know How Been Nor Accomplished Than Which Commonly Many Ever Travels Wider
Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings. Apollonius of Tyana
Strings Both Imperial He How Understood His Office May Tune
Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black. Apollonius of Tyana
Wealth Better Tears Black Men Consider How Heap Nor Than Gold Which Sand Taxes Who Base Away Nearest Gathered
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Aristotle
Great Great City City Confounded
Most people would rather give than get affection. Aristotle
People Affection Would Give Rather Most Than Get
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. Aristotle
Art Other Defined Case Given Faculty Observing Any May Rhetoric Available Means Persuasion Function
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition. Aristotle
Best Eyes Vision Animals Disposition Others Projecting Those Sign Some Small Most Moderate Middle Size Which Persons Large Acute Position
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. Aristotle
Pleasures Temperance Regard Mean
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. Aristotle
Matter Power Impress Sense Wax Way Takes Piece Without Itself Iron Gold Sensible Which Forms Things Receiving
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