Q u o t e s 2

"Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached."

"You cannot believe in God unless you believe in yourself."

"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."

"Strength is the medicine for the world's disease."

"The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Teach men of the strength that is already within them."

"To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. 'I will drink the ocean', says the persevering soul, 'at my will, mountains will crumble up.' Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal."

"The definition of God and Man: Man is an infinite circle whose circumference is nowhere, but the centre is located in one spot; and God is an infinite circle whose circumference is nowhere, but whose centre is everywhere."

"The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion... Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out on that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world?"

"The only definition that can be given of morality is this: That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral."

"Shall India die? Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct; all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest; fraud, force, and its competition its ceremonies; and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.. Will she die? This old Mother of all that is noble and spiritual, the land that sages trod, the land in which Godlike men still live and breathe? I will borrow the lantern of the Athenian sage and follow you, my brother, through the cities and villages, plains and forests, of this broad world - show me such men in other lands if you can."

"Know thyself."

"Nothing too much."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty"

"O Crito, if so it pleases the gods, so let it be; Antyus and Melitus are able indeed to kill me, but they cannot harm me"

"What a lot of things there are a man can do without."

"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

"An unexamined life is not worth living"

"If death had only been the end of it all, the wicked would have had a bargain in dying; for they would have been happily quit not only of these bodies but of their own evil, together with their souls. But now, inasmuch as the soul is manifestly immortal there is no release or salvation from evil, except attainment of the highest virtues and wisdom."

"First say to yourself what you want to be, then do what you have to do."

"The wise do not grieve for the things they have not, but rejoice for that which they have"

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire"

"Remember that thou art an actor in a play of such a kind as the teacher may choose; if short, of a short one; if long, of a long one; if he wishes you to act the part of a poor man, see that you act the part naturally; if the part of the lame man, of a magistrate, of a private person, (do the same). For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part, belongs to another."

"Seek not the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."

"Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave."

"Slipshod work is like half-baked bread, fit only to be thrown away"

"He who is afraid of people's censure will never be able to do anything worthwhile"

"Just as only others can see our back while we ourselves cannot, similarly we cannot see our own errors"

"A man will see and hear only that which he wishes to see and hear"

"A man ever lives in the jaws of Death"

"He who does not know himself is lost."

"Only that work, which is done after anger has subsided, can bear fruit"

"He who does not labour and yet eats, eats stolen food."

"To speak or not to speak-when that is the question, silence should take the place of speech."

"Study as if you were to live forever, live as if you were to die tommorrow"