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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
Children | Dependence | Energy | Glory | Judgment | Love | Memory | Mind | Order | Success | Teach | Truth |
Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
But the accusation and witnesses are produced in the presence of the judge and Power; the accused person makes his defense, and he is immediately acquitted or condemned by the judge; and if he appeals to the triumvirate, on the following day he is acquitted or condemned.
The impulses which flow in the arm nerves of a typist convey to her fingers the translated information which reaches her eye or ear, in order that the fingers may be caused to strike the proper keys. Might not these currents be intercepted, either in the original form in which information is conveyed to the brain, or in the marvelously metamorphosed form in which they then proceed to the hand?
Association | Memory | Mind | Work | Association |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
Body | Knowledge | Men | Nature | Responsibility | Understand |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The lack of ambition, in large, is sometimes the source of many vices; their duties breed contempt, arrogance, cowardice and weakness.
Mind |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The mind does not need to know.
Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
No one wants either necessaries or luxuries. Moreover, the race is managed for the good of the commonwealth, and not of private individuals, and the magistrates must be obeyed.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
Mind |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The moderation of great men only sets a limit to their vices. The moderation of weak men is mediocrity.
Mind |
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
The righteous person caries on circumspectly and serenely whatever happens, and is undeviatingly harmonious even when asleep and dreaming. The malevolent person lapses into violent behavior instead of discussing things, and betrays anger even while speaking musically with laughing words.
Body |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
When you no longer make discriminations, your wisdom can appear. Your wisdom will manifest in direct proportion to the degree you have cast out discriminations. In the minds of most people, there are so many discriminations that they entirely fill the field of the eighth consciousness, which is basically pure, with filth and defilements. Once you are rid of all that garbage, your wisdom will appear.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
I'd like to take you now, on wings of song as it were, and help you forget for a moment, perhaps, your drab, wretched lives.
Time |
Abuse of any one generally shows that he has marked traits of character. The stupid and indifferent are passed by in silence.
Glory | Indispensable | Mind | Sound |
The agrarian would divide all the property in the community equally among its members. - But if so divided today, industry on the one hand, and idleness on the other, would make it unequal on the morrow. - There is no agrarianism in the providence of God.
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
When you are still plowing fields ahead, make a point of being open-minded, and there will be no murmuring among others. After your life is over, its blessings will flow for a long time, giving contentment to people in their thoughts.
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
If you really have no deluded thoughts, then you have already been born in the Land of Ultimate Bliss. If you are truly free of desire, then you have already taught and transformed living beings.