"The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task."

Buddha on effort
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"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship
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"Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear."

Buddha on wisdom
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"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

Thích Nhat Hanh on negativity
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"Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form."

Baudelaire, Charles on immortality   

"As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work."

Baudelaire, Charles on health
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"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."

Baudelaire, Charles on genius
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"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Baudelaire, Charles on evil
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"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

Voltaire on virginity
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"Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite."

Baudelaire, Charles on vice   

"Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?"

Robespierre, Maximilien on vengeance   

"The noblest vengeance is to forgive."

Proverb on vengeance
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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire on death
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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire on doctors
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"I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age."

Voltaire on doctors
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"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."

Pilgrim, Peace on negativity
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"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

Dickens, Charles on neurosis   

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"The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives."

Bataille, Georges on neurosis   

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."

Bankhead, Tallulah on neurosis
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"Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness."

Voltaire on exaggeration
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

Voltaire on evil
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"All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference."

Voltaire on equality
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"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on enemies
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"The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form."

Delsarte on vengeance
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"As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds."

Buddha on wisdom
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"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."

Ballou, Hosea on zeal
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"Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment."

Felltham, Owen on zeal   

"It's not sissy to show your feeling."

Diana, Princess of Wales on feelings
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"I think the biggest disease this world suffers fromis people feeling unloved."

Diana, Princess of Wales on disease
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"I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do."

Diana, Princess of Wales on affection
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"Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that"

Diana, Princess of Wales on affection
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"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on abortion
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"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha on control
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"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

Fuller, Thomas on zeal
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"Return to the root and you will find the meaning."

Seng-Ts'an on understanding   

"The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind."

Seng-Ts'an on choice   

"Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance."

Churchill, Winston on vengeance
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"Vengeance has no foresight."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on vengeance
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"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."

Hale, Sir Matthew on vanity   

"Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life."

Franklin, Benjamin on vanity