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"A person who performs good Karma (deeds) is always held in high esteem." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Even God blesses only those who are contemplative, intelligent and the protectors of the weak." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Good people avoid the company of bad people." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Harmony prevails if people of similar nature meet." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Intelligence is the mightiest and nothing is beyond its reach." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"One shall have to undergo suffering to reach truth. That is why it is said that truth is eternally victorious." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"One should make good people their friends. One, who keeps good friends, benefits and lives in peace." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"One should performed karma for the benefit of humanity with an unbiased approach because bias gives birth to evil, which creates thousands of obstacles in our path." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Only 'knowledge' can help us to know the universe, which is vast like an ocean. It enlightens everyone's minds." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Accepting the Command of the Lord's Will, I have found total peace; the home of suffering has been destroyed." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda
"If there is difference of opinion between husband and wife then household chores will become impossible to accomplish. To avoid this the relationship between husband and wife should be cordial and loving." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda
"Love cures pettiness, hate and grief. Love loosens bonds; it saves man from the torments of birth and death." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda
"Pain is driven far away, and peace comes in its place; there is no delay, when the Guru gives the Order." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda
"Stress upon the importance of virtuous living free from any kind of sinful tendencies." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda
"This ocean too is vast and full of mystery; it has its unplumbed depths. It tosses man about from birth to death and again from death to birth." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda
"Those who are greedy and 'devoid of devotion' sit together and devour flesh, they definitely have an eye on other's wealth." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda
"For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last." - Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
"Money is the filthiest thing around. If you stay around it very long, you'll be defiled." - Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
"Don't tell your secret to your friend, he will tell it to his friend." - Turkish Proverbs
"The father gave his son a vineyard, the son didn't give the father even a grape." - Turkish Proverbs
"The wise understand by themselves, fools follow the reports of others." - Tibetan Proverbs
"All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day. All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at epilogue)" - William Shakespeare
"Consideration, like an angel came and whipp'd the offending Adam out of him, leaving his body as a paradise to envelope and contain celestial spirits. King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1." - William Shakespeare
"What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" - Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL
"Forsooth, he that waketh in hell and feeleth his heart fail him, shall have memory of the merry days of earth, and how that when his heart failed him there, he cried on his fellow, were it his wife or his son or his brother or his gossip or his brother sworn in arms, and how that his fellow heard him and came and they mourned together under the sun, till again they laughed together and were but half sorry between them. This shall he think on in hell, and cry on his fellow to help him, and shall find that therein is no help because there is no fellowship, but every man for himself." - William Morris
"Give me love and work - these two only" - William Morris
"Lo, the lovers unloved that draw nigh for your blessing! For your tale makes the dreaming whereby yet they live the dreams of the day with their hopes of redressing, the dreams of the night with the kisses they give, the dreams of the dawn wherein death and hope strive." - William Morris
"Love is enough: cherish life that abideth, lest ye die ere ye know him, and curse and misname him; for who knows in what ruin of all hope he hideth, on what wings of the terror of darkness he rideth? And what is the joy of man's life that ye blame him for his bliss grown a sword, and his rest grown a fire?" - William Morris
"Love is enough: through the trouble and tangle from yesterday's dawning to yesterday's night I sought through the vales where the prisoned winds wrangle, till, wearied and bleeding, at end of the light I met him, and we wrestled, and great was my might. And the shadow of the night and not love was departed; I was sore, I was weary, yet love lived to seek; so I scaled the dark mountains, and wandered sad-hearted over wearier wastes, where e'en sunlight was bleak, with no rest of the night for my soul waxen weak." - William Morris
"We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled Out of the powerful legions under earth, Help me this once, that France may get the field." - William Shakespeare
"O! grief hath changed me since you saw me last, and careful hours with time's deformèd hand have written strange defeatures in my face." - William Shakespeare
"Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, chaos is come again." - William Shakespeare
"Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. "What," said the hero in reply, "have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart?" He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own." - Elias L. Magoon
"The Revolution of 1848 found all the Rougons on the lookout, frustrated by their bad luck, and ready to use any means necessary to advance their cause. They were a family of bandits lying in wait, ready to plunder and steal." - Emile Zola
"What is right may well be said even twice." - Empedocles NULL
"Gossiping and lying go hand in hand." - English Proverbs
"Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another..." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour" - Euripedes NULL
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripedes NULL
"Here are two kinds of light, the light on the hither side of the darkness and the light beyond the darkness. We must press on through the darkness and the terror of it if we would reach the holier light beyond. We are here — no matter who put us here, or how we came here — to fulfill a task. We cannot afford to go of our own volition until the last item of our duty is discharged." - Felix Adler
"The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
"A person who performs good Karma (deeds) is always held in high esteem." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Even God blesses only those who are contemplative, intelligent and the protectors of the weak." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Good people avoid the company of bad people." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Harmony prevails if people of similar nature meet." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Intelligence is the mightiest and nothing is beyond its reach." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"One shall have to undergo suffering to reach truth. That is why it is said that truth is eternally victorious." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"One should make good people their friends. One, who keeps good friends, benefits and lives in peace." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda