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Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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Advice Deep Prison Tree Virtue
The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
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Desire Limitation Yourself
Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
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Fight Power Togetherness Unity Win
Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.
SAADI

Creation Essence Human Pain Soul Sympathy Uncomfortable Yourself
When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.
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Enemy Men See Trouble Yourself
Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
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Advice Help Men Wisdom
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
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Animal Guide Hairs Power Tongue
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Body Deep Empty Food Spirit Spiritual
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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Adversity Hard Time Men Prosperity Worth
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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Friendship Stranger
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
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Forgiveness Generosity God People
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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Ignorance Knowledge
To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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Deal Harsh Oppression Sorry
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
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Dog Forget Friendship Himself
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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Forgiveness Oppression Wound
The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.
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God Judgement Law Story World

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

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Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

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