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General Forum: Offbeat n Jokes | | aalOchinchi chuuDu --Siri Siri | |
| "To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. "
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 5, Mar 2006 4:07:54 PM IST
"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand. "
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 5, Mar 2006 4:07:33 PM IST
"In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities. "
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. "
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. "
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. "
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. "
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. "
"We are what we repeatedly do. "
"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. "
"We make war that we may live in peace. "
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. "
"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. "
"Nature does nothing uselessly."
"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."
" Well begun is half done. "
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 5, Mar 2006 4:03:21 PM IST
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. "
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 5, Mar 2006 3:54:02 PM IST
"The important thing is not to stop questioning "
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 5, Mar 2006 3:46:25 PM IST
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. "
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 5, Mar 2006 3:44:19 PM IST
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 4, Mar 2006 2:13:49 PM IST
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 4, Mar 2006 2:12:15 PM IST
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 4, Mar 2006 2:11:50 PM IST
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 4, Mar 2006 2:11:20 PM IST
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