The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in the Original Documents, Band 1

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Oliver Joseph Thatcher
University Research Extension Company, 1915
 

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Seite 322 - THAT WE ARE is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
Seite 338 - Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!
Seite 338 - He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
Seite 400 - The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
Seite 389 - A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang.
Seite 391 - I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge ; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Seite 109 - Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " He who gives life. He who gives strength ; whose blessing all the bright gods desire ; whose shadow is immortality, whose shadow is death. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " He who through his power is the only king of the breathing and awakening world.
Seite 322 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Seite 389 - I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.
Seite 154 - And as a goldsmith, taking a piece of gold, turns it into another, newer and more beautiful shape, so does this Self, after having thrown off this body and dispelled all ignorance, make unto himself another, newer and more beautiful shape...

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