Our enemies are not demons, but human beings like ourselves.

Lao Tzu

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Benjamin Franklin

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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