We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night.
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
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