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«To be at one with God is to be at peace ... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Trine | About: God, Peace | Keywords: at peace, external, finds, Peace of God
«To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul»
«Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.»
«What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.»
«Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements»
«We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.»
«The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.»
«The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.»
«The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.»
Author: Seneca | About: Adversity | Keywords: affect, external, pressure

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