Quotes by Akhenaton

The following are quotes from Akhenaton:

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

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