Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Anand Thakur
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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Water is the best of all things.
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The noblest of the elements is water.
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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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