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A lucky fool is a big nuisance.

Even if it's hard for me, it's no reason to make someone suffer.

All people have their own self-knowledge and thinking.

Discord is the father of all things.

Eyes are more reliable witnesses than ears.

The soul of the sleeper is like the spider in the middle of its web, it immediately goes to the wounded part of the body, and the man wakes up.

If the blind man were asked what sight is, he would answer that blindness.

Sometimes even a pile of haphazardly thrown trash can lead to something wonderful.

Even when all people's wishes come true, they don't get better.

When we live, our souls are dead, when we die, they come alive.

Nature likes to hide.

The mind is not educated by much teaching.

The wisest of men, compared to the god, seems like an ape in wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

Wisdom consists in one thing: to find out how everything is governed in everything.

Thinking is a precious quality, and wisdom consists in telling the truth and, listening to the voice of nature, acting according to it.

People who deal with philosophy need to know a lot of things.

To me, one is worth ten grand if it's the best.

One and the same is in us both living and dead, lively and asleep, young and old. For one changing is another, and conversely, another changing is the first.

I call destiny that order and chain of causes, when one cause, linked to another, gives rise to a phenomenon by itself.

Anger is hard to fight: for everything it wants, you pay with your life. Fighting pleasure is even harder than anger.

Those who, while listening, do not understand are like the deaf; of them it is said "Being present, they are absent."

Everything is known and respected by even the most tried of sages, everything is just an opinion…

The human way of thinking is not endowed with reason; the divine is.

Man's thoughts are child's play.

The misfortune of the whole world comes from small things, just as a great work is made from small things.

Unbounded virtue resembles its defect, scattering virtue resembles its theft.

Know the beginning and the way of the ancients, and knowing this will enable you to see the guiding thread that leads to the present day.

Pay attention to your thoughts - they are the beginning of deeds.

A wheel has thirty spokes, but it uses the chariot thanks to the gap between them. The vessels are made of clay, but the hollow of the vessel is used. Windows and doors are made for the house, but the void in the house is used. Here is the benefit of being and non-being.

Ultimate sincerity is like a winding road, ultimate cleverness is like stupidity.