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Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.
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“If I had remained free, obscure, and alone placed in the situation Nature designed me for, I should have done nothing but what was right, for my heart bears not the feeds of any mischievous passion. Had I been invisible and powerful as the Almighty, I should have been benevolent and good like him: it is power and freedom that make good men, weakness and slavery never made any but wicked ones.”
― The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
― The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
“so true it is that pleasure does not depend on extravagance, and that joy is as readily purchased by pence as pounds.”
― The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
― The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
“Self-esteem is the strongest incentive to elevated souls: self-pride, fertile in illusions, often disguises itself, and is mistaken for the former; but when once the fraud is discovered, the danger ceases; for though it is difficult to eradicate it entirely, it may easily be kept in subjection.”
― The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
― The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
“The thoughts of youth,’ he continued, ‘are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.”
― The Richest Man In Babylon
― The Richest Man In Babylon
“if you study in order to instruct, and herbalize only to become author or professor, all its attractive charms vanish, and plants, being no longer considered but as instruments of our passions, no more real pleasure can result from the study of them. Our end, then, is not to gain knowledge, but to make others sensible of our acquirements;”
― The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
― The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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