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Friedrich Max Muller Quotes

«Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not if we enter into the clefts of the mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where death could not overcome (the mortal).»
«Long is the night to him who is awake.»
«He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?»
«There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed himself on all sides, and thrown off all fetters.»
«They depart with their thoughts well-collected, they are not happy in their abode; like swans who have left their lake, they leave their house and home.»
«His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.»
«The earth is always represented as an emblem of patience; the bolt of Indra, if taken in its technical sense, as the bolt of a gate, might likewise suggest the idea of firmness; while the lake is a constant representative of serenity and purity.»
«The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.»
«Forests are delightful; where the world finds no delight, there the passionless will find delight, for they look not for pleasures.»
«Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.»

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