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Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from other sin our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.
Family | Good | Heaven | Lesson | Marriage | Obedience | Order | Rule | Sin | Submission | Learn |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Watch your motives in everything. Both the greedy man and the yogi eat. But would you say that eating is a sin because it is often associated with greed? Sin lies in the thought, in the motive. The worldly man eats to satisfy his greed, and the yogi eats to keep his body well. There is a lot of difference.
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All people have claims on man, and to the person with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a person take part in the actions and clashes of their time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
There is no sin except stupidity.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to someone else.
Consolation | Disgrace |
The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
The only sin which we never forgive in each other is a difference of opinion.
Zohar or The Zohar, literally "Splendor or Radiance" NULL
A sin leaves a mark; repeated, it deepens the mark; when committed a third time, the mark becomes a stain.
William Faulkner, fully William Cuthbert Faulkner
There is consolation in the assurance that whatever becomes of this husk of a planet, the inner meaning of it, hope itself, God, man’s ideal, continually progresses and develops.
Consolation | God | Hope | Man | Meaning |
My child can be no more guilty or deserving of punishment for my sin than he can see with my eyes and feel with my nerves.
Punishment | Sin | Child | Guilty |
It is a great sin to swear unto a sin, but greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
Sin |