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Friedrich Max Muller Quotes

«He will have cruel suffering, loss, injury of the body, heavy affliction, or loss of mind,?Or a misfortune coming from the king, or a fearful accusation, or loss of relations, or destruction of treasures,?Or lightning-fire will burn his houses; and when his body is destroyed, the fool will go to hell.»
«Walking naked and the other things mentioned in our verse are outward signs of a saintly life.»
«He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.»
«Is there in this world any man so restrained by humility that he does not mind reproof, as a well-trained horse the whip?»
«Look at this dressed-up lump, covered with wounds, joined together, sickly, full of many thoughts, which has no strength, no hold!»
«This body is wasted, full of sickness, and frail; this heap of corruption breaks to pieces, life indeed ends in death.»
«Those white bones, like gourds thrown away in the autumn, what pleasure is there in looking at them?»
«After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.»
«The brilliant chariots of kings are destroyed, the body also approaches destruction, but the virtue of good people never approaches destruction,thus do the good say to the good.»
«A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.»

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