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"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
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"Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried."

"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."

"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."

"A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person's bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests."

"Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us."

"You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind."
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"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

"Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."

"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."

"The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men."

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

"The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd."
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