Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
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