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Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.

Bhartrhari

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.
BHARTRHARI

Flames Men Torch
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
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Ignorance Lying Men
Fate’s sentence written on the brow no hand can e’er efface.
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Fate Hands
There is no medicine to cure a fool!
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Cures Fool Medicine
The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth– To them e’en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.
BHARTRHARI

Happiness Inward Kings Source
Kindness can turn the bad man’s heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
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Heart Kindness Wise
Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.
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Adversity Moon Wise
Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.
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Clouds People Rain
Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.
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Giving Lying Two
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
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Enemy Energy Friends No
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.
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Blades Money Virtue
I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.
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Life Wasted Life
Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.
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Character Men Rain
Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.
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Knowledge Men Wonderful
The pearl on my beloved’s neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
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Oysters Pearls Sacrifice
I’ve wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I’ve laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I’ve eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.
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Fire Land Pride

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