In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
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Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains...
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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.
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If an eye never falls asleep, All dreams will by themselves cease If the mind retains its absoluteness, The ten thousand things are of one suchness.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him, but to the object
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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