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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
― St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
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Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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