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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an…

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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
All money is a matter of belief.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but…
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,…

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Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be… — Sivananda
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself. — Juvenal
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks. — Robert Breault
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. — Ralph Blum
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. — Juvenal
In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and… — Miguel de Cervantes
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He… — Aleister Crowley

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