Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.
Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.
Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel.
I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
The country [India] is doing far better.