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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

By Yoga is meant union through divine works done without desire, with equality of soul to all things and all men, as a sacrifice to the Supreme...

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears.

I believe one thing holds it all together. Everything I've ever done was done with excitement, because I wanted to do it, because I loved doing it. The greatest man in the world for me, one day, was Lon Chaney, was Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, was Laurence Olivier in Richard III. The men change, but one thing remains always the same: the fever, the ardor, the delight. Because I wanted to do, I did. Where I wanted to feed, I fed.