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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

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A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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Accomplishment Patience Ruin
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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Deep Happiness Rose Sorrow Togetherness Wisdom
Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.
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Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
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Care Listening Yourself
It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
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Break Endurance Enemy Friendship
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
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Desire Limitation Yourself
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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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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If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
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Change Fall Heaven Value Wisdom Worth
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
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Desire Feeling Selfish
To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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Deal Harsh Oppression Sorry
A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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