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Friedrich Max Muller Quotes

«A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his passions more widely.»
«An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.»
«Not a moment should escape, for they who allow the right moment to pass, suffer pain when they are in hell.»
«They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they ought to be ashamed of, such men, embracing false doctrines enter the evil path.»
«They who know what is forbidden as forbidden, and what is not forbidden as not forbidden, such men, embracing the true doctrine, enter the good path.»
«It is hard to leave the world (to become a friar), it is hard to enjoy the world; hard is the monastery, painful are the houses; painful it is to dwell with equals (to share everything in common), and the itinerant mendicant is beset with pain.»
«Let no man be an itinerant mendicant and he will not be beset with pain.»
«That is not a safe refuge, that is not the best refuge; a man is not delivered from all pains after having gone to that refuge.»
«Here I shall dwell in the rain, here in winter and summer, thus the fool meditates, and does not think of his death.»
«Death comes and carries off that man, praised for his children and flocks, his mind distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village.»