Max Müller Short Quotes

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It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

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Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

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I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

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Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
Sometimes attributed to Mark Twain

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Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

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It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

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Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

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The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

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A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

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For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

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Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

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The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

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That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

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While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

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He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.

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Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

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When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

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What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

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Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

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They contain, by the side of simple, natural, childish thoughts, many ideas which to us sound decidedly modern, or secondary and tertiary.

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An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

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He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

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The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

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Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

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He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

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The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

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That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

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