Max Muller Quotes

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• An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one…
• The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.
• A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.
• He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
• He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from…
• Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.
• Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.
• What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.
• He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he…
• Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
• He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow…
• I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns…
• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
• Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
• I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.
• The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
• Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love…
• While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
• Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
• Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

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