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"There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy."
"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"
"The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability."
"He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy."
"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."
"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."
"We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment."
"If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?"
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"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."
"When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'"
"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind."
"While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive."
"I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to; days when idleness was the most attractive and productive industry. Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly."
"Secrets affect you more than you'd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone'll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn't it the secret who's actually using you?"
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