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The wise man is he who can either take or leave those so-called necessities of life with which other people are intemperate. +
The wise who knows the Self as bodiless within the bodies, as unchanging among changing things, as great and omnipresent, does never grieve. +
The wolf changes his coat, and the serpent his skin, but not their nature. +
The world exists by cause; all things exist by cause; and beings are bound by cause, even as the rolling cart-wheel by the pin of an axle-tree. +
The worst of maladies is envy; the best of medicines is health. +
The young of the raven appears to it a nightingale. +
Theosophy is not the acquirement of powers, whether psychic or intellectual, though both are its servants. +
Theosophy is the science of life, the art of living. +
Theosophy is the vehicle of the spirit that giveth life; consequently, nothing dogmatic can be Theosophical. +
There are four things of which a little goes on a long way: pain, poverty, error, and enmity. +
There are three things of which one never tires: health, life and wealth. +
There exists no spot on the earth, or in the sky, or in the sea, neither is there any in the mountain-clefts, where an evil deed does not bring trouble to the doer. +
There is a road that leads to Wealth; there is another road that leads to Nirvana. +
There is more courage in facing the world with undisguised truth, than in descending into a wild beast's den. +
There is no death without sin, and no affliction without transgression. +
There is “true” Knowledge. Learn thou it is this:<br>
To see one Changeless Life in all that lives,<br>
And in the Separate, One Inseparable.<br>
There is imperfect Knowledge: that which sees<br>
The separate existences apart,<br>
And, being separated, holds them real.<br>
There is false Knowledge: that which blindly clings<br>
To one as if 'twere all, seeking no cause,<br>
Deprived of light, narrow, and dull, and “dark”. +
This life is in the world of work and retributive justice; the life that follows is in the world of great reward. +
This world is a venomous tree, bearing two honey-sweet fruits: the divine essence of poetry and the friendship of the noble. +
Those who prefer to swim in the waters of their ignorance, and to go down very low, need not exert the body or heart; they need only cease to move, and they will surely sink. +
Though despised, one sleeps with comfort, with comfort awakes, with comfort lives in this world; but the scorner perisheth. +