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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
"Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation...to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down."
"When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth."
"There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days."
"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."
"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out."
"It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world."
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"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."
"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."
"We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly."
"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."
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