Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
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The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how.
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
By the work one knows the workmen.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.