A Quote by Gautama Buddha

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater. — © Gautama Buddha
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

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Gautama Buddha
567 BC - 484 BC
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .
The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.
Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.
The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up.
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.
After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.
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