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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.






If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.






We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.






Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.






Reason does not know the interests of the heart.






The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.






Everyone has the right to happiness, but nobody has the right to destroy the happiness of others.






All that is mine I carry with me.






To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.






The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.






Simplicity is the result of maturity.






And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.






Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.






Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.






When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.






You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun







If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.






The right man is the one who seizes the moment.






Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.






One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil.






It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.






Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.






The wind is rising!... We must try to live!



The wind is rising!...  We must try to live!

Image attribution  Background photo by Saksham Gangwar on Unsplash





If you have words stronger than silence, speak. If you do not have them, then remain silent.






The dunes change with the wind, but the desert remains the same.



The dunes change with the wind, but the desert remains the same.

Image attribution  Background photo by Zack Woolwine on Unsplash





Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.






Each one sees what he carries in his heart.






The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.






Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.






I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.










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