However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of a great purpose.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.

A bad man is a good man's job.

The ultimate goal of human life is to transcend culture and personality to the unconditioned pure being. But the means to do this is through our culture and way of life.

Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

El sabio no dice nunca todo lo que piensa, pero siempre piensa todo lo que dice.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

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