Great Throughts Treasury

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Charles Pierre Baudelaire

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

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Events | Life | Life | Punishment | Suffering | Truth | Wisdom | Work | Learn |

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Babylonian Talmud

As learned men grow older, they increase their wisdom; As ignorant men grow older, they increase in folly.

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Folly | Men | Wisdom |

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Charlotte Joko Beck

Our life is always absolute: that’s all there is. The truth is not somewhere else. But we have minds that are trying to burn the past or the future. The living present - Buddhahood - is rarely encountered.

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Absolute | Future | Life | Life | Past | Present | Truth | Wisdom |

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Gamaliel Bailey

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

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Men | Philanthropy | Respect | Riches | Wisdom | Respect | Value |

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Babylonian Talmud

Righteous men are greater after their death than during their lifetime.

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Death | Men | Wisdom |

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Kenneth Eldon Bailey

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we don't value the sun for its height.

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Men | Philanthropy | Respect | Riches | Wisdom | Respect | Value |

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James Beattie

How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!

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Love | Truth | Wisdom | Words |

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Clive Bell, fully Arthur Clive Heward Bell

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means similar states of mind.

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Aesthetic | Art | Ecstasy | Family | Means | Men | Mind | Religion | Wisdom | Art | Circumstance |

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Edward Bellamy

The lie of fear is the refuge of cowardice, and the lie of fraud, the device of the cheat. The inequalities of men and the lust of acquisition are a constant premium of lying.

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Cowardice | Fear | Fraud | Lust | Lying | Men | Wisdom |

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Kenneth Eldon Bailey

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

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Doubt | Truth | Wisdom |

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Kenneth Eldon Bailey

Doubt is an incentive to search for truth, and patient inquiry leads the way to it.

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Doubt | Inquiry | Search | Truth | Wisdom |

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Bruno Bettelheim

We want our children to believe that, inherently, all men are good. But children know that they are not always good; and often, even when they are, they would prefer not to be.

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Children | Good | Men | Wisdom |

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Bacchylides NULL

Hope robs men of understanding.

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Hope | Men | Understanding | Wisdom |

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Hal Borland, formally Harold Glen Borland

For all his learning or sophistication, man is still instinctively reaching toward that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

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Arrogance | Evidence | Existence | Force | Learning | Man | Wisdom |

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

It is not wisdom but ignorance that teaches men presumption. Genius may sometimes be arrogant, but nothing is so diffident as knowledge.

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Genius | Ignorance | Knowledge | Men | Nothing | Presumption | Wisdom |

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Christian Nestell Bovee

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

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Better | Law | Men | Wisdom |

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John Christian Bovee

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

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Fame | Truth | Wisdom | Words |

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Andrew Brock, fully Andrew Clutton Brock

The universe is to be valued because there is truth in it and beauty in it; and we live to discover the truth and the beauty no less than to do what is right. Indeed, we can not attain to that state of mind in which we shall naturally do what is right unless we are aware of the truth and the beauty of the universe.

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Beauty | Mind | Right | Truth | Universe | Wisdom | Beauty |

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