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"How many things can I do without?"
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"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."

"The less you need, the more you live."

"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."

"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."

"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."

"Progress is discovering what you can do without."

"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."

"Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist."

"You don't need extra food, extra water, extra clothing for extra warmth " anything extra. You don't need soap or deodorant. Everything you carry you should need daily."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."


"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful."


"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."


"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."


"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers."
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