Book: The way of life

If a good deed is done for something, then it is no longer a good deed.

Just as all the water will flow out of a bucket if there is at least one hole in it, so all the joys of love will not be retained in a person’s soul if there is dislike for even one person.

There is no such strong and healthy body that would never get sick; there is no such wealth that would not be lost; There is no power that does not end. All this is fragile.

War is nothing but a dispute between several governments over power over subjects.

Keep reading many writers, and all kinds of books are not produced mutnosti and uncertainty in mind. You should feed your mind only the writers of undeniable advantages. Excessive reading entertains the mind, to wean him from independent work. Therefore, read only the books of old, certainly a good one. If there ever is a desire to move on time to other sort of works, and never forget to go to the former.

Free the only one who has power over sinful desires of his body.

Silly when one man considers himself better than other people, but even more stupid when a people considers itself better than other peoples. And every nation, most every nation lives in this terrible, stupid and pernicious superstition.

To sustain life the body needs a little, but the whims of the body no end.

The less people know about skinny Affairs of men, the stricter they are to themselves.

"Memento mori" is a great word. If we remembered what we are: die, all our life would get a very different purpose. Man, knowing that he would die in half an hour, will not do neither empty nor stupid, nor, most importantly, the bad in this half hour. But half a century that can be separate you from death, isn't that what half an hour? Before death and the present time.

In order for man to live his life, he needed to know what he should and what should not do. In order to know this, he needs to understand what he is and the world in which he lives.

If in doubt and don't know what to do, imagine that you die in the evening, and doubt immediately be immediately clear that it of duty and personal desire.

The bee, to live according to his law, it is necessary to fly, a snake to crawl, fish swim, and man to love. Because if people, instead of loving people and makes evil people, he does the same weird, as if the bird began to swim and fish to fly.

When you're hard, when you are afraid of people, when your life is confused, say to yourself: let's stop worrying about what will become of me will love all those who agree, and nothing more, and there come what may. Just try to live and see how suddenly everything unravels, and you will have nothing either to fear or to desire.