| The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. -- William Cowper |
| Author:
Cowper, WilliamEra:
1731 |
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| He who knows does not speak; He who speaks does not know. He who is truthful is not showy; He who is showy is not truthful. He who is virtuous does not dispute; He who disputes is not virtuous. He who is learned is not wise; He who is wise is not learned. Therefore the sage does not display his own merits. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author:
Bierce, AmbroseEra:
1842 |
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| With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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