"Do not wander far and wide but..." - Quote by Saint Augustine
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
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“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”
“We should never use the truth to wound.”
“Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.”
More on Self Discovery
“The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.”
“Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.”
“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
More on Truth
“I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.”
“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.”
“If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved”