He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
No man should be angry with what is true.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act ‘rightly’ because we are ‘excellent’, in fact we achieve ‘excellence’ by acting ‘rightly’.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
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As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
