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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Try to realize it’s all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you’re only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.