"All men by nature desire to know."

Aristotle on nature
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"That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me -- with such a one I am in love."

Bhagavad Gita on hatred
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"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace."

Bhagavad Gita on knowledge
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"The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons."

Bhagavad Gita on appearance
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"Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering."

Bhagavad Gita on appreciation
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"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place."

Bhagavad Gita on mediation
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"Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart."

Bhagavad Gita on meditation
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"He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion."

Bhagavad Gita on mind
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"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

Bacon, Francis on nature
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"Nature does nothing uselessly."

Aristotle on nature
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"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."

Anderson, Lorraine on nature   

"I am at two with nature."

Allen, Woody on nature
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"I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them."

Bhagavad Gita on nature
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"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."

Descartes, Rene on insults
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"It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well."

Descartes, Rene on mind
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"Everything is self-evident."

Descartes, Rene on reality   

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

Descartes, Rene on doubt
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"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."

Descartes, Rene on behavior
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"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

Descartes, Rene on simplicity
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"I think therefore I am."

Descartes, Rene on thoughts and thinking
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"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

Descartes, Rene on thoughts and thinking   

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries."

Descartes, Rene on books - reading
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"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

Kant, Immanuel on morality
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"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Confidence is the bond of friendship."

Syrus, Publilius on confidence   

"For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required."

Proverb, Indian on friends and friendship
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"There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy."

Moore, Frankfort on enemies
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"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on friends and friendship
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"Opposition is true friendship."

Blake, William on opposition
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"Love is a friendship caught on fire."

Northern Exposure on love
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"Love is a friendship set to music."

Cossman, E. Joseph on love
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"Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge."

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De on love
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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

Cather, Willa on friends and friendship
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"He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on politics
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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

Byrnes, James F. on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship   

"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."

Francis De Sales, St. on friends and friendship
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