Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or … - Max Muller

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I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function. . . Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

Max Muller

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

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The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

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That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

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When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

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