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Letter "F" » Friedrich Max Muller Quotes
«There is no satisfying lusts, even by a shower of gold pieces; he who knows that lusts have a short taste and cause pain, he is wise.»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
«Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
«If a man is tossed about by doubts, full of strong passions, and yearning only for what is delightful, his thirst will grow more and more, and he will indeed make his fetters strong.»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
«He who has reached the consummation, who does not tremble, who is without thirst and without sin, he has broken all the thorns of life: this will be his last body.»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
«He who is without thirst and without affection, who understands the words and their interpretation, who knows the order of letters (those which are before and which are after), he has received his last body, he is called the great sage, the great man.»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
«I have conquered all, I know all, in all conditions of life I am free from taint; I have left all, and through the destruction of thirst I am free; having learnt myself, whom shall I teach?»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
«The gift of the law exceeds all gifts; the sweetness of the law exceeds all sweetness; the delight in the law exceeds all delights; the extinction of thirst overcomes all pain.»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
«Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself, as if he were his own enemy.»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
«The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind is damaged by passion: therefore a gift bestowed on the passionless brings great reward.»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
«In the body restraint is good, good is restraint in speech, in thought restraint is good, good is restraint in all things.»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
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