Sublime

The merit of a man is not in the knowledge he possesses, but in the effort he made to achieve it.

It’s important to strive to do good, and even more important to strive to abstain from evil.

Kindness is for your soul as health is for your body: you do not notice it when you have it. A person becomes happy to the same extent to which he or she gives happiness to other people. —JEREMY BENTHAM

We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life. —After HENRY DAVID THOREAU

You can only improve life in yourself by destroying the barriers that divide your life from that of others, and by considering others as yourself, and loving them. By so doing you increase your share of life.

“During this last day I have descended from the spiritual and moral heights where I was all this time when I communicated with the best and wisest thinkers of the world when I created my Circle of Reading.”

« Peut-être n’ai-je pas vécu comme on doit vivre? se demanda-t-il tout à coup. Mais comment cela serait-il possible puisque j’ai toujours fait ce que je croyais être mon devoir? » se répondit-il. Et aussitôt il chercha à repousser par cet argument l’énigme de la vie et de la mort, comme quelque chose d’absolument impossible.

He had said the very thing that her soul desired but that her reason feared.

“I know that it gives one great inner force, calmness, and happiness to communicate with such great thinkers as Socrates, Epictetus, Arnold, Parker…. They tell us about what is most important for humanity, about the meaning of life and about virtue…. I would like to create a book … in which I could tell a person about his life, and about the Good W