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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and…
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many…
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended…
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we…
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that…
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by…
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
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The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the…
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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and…
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,…
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Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by…
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and…
— Isaac Newton
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How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness…
— Joseph Butler
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The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what…
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your…
— Michael Beckwith
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Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss.
— Wayne Dyer
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he…
— Patrick Süskind
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Humanity destroys itself, not anything external just internal by his own mind.
— Jeremy Limn
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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