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Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

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Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
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Body Death Friendship King Lost Wealth Wife
A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
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Born Consumption Fire Fools Grief Life Moments Parents Son
Union in privacy (with one’s wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.
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Animal Bold Easy Learning Privacy Sex Store Trust Unity
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
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Business Deal Eat Give Up Happiness Knowledge Money Shy
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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Animal God Heaven Liberty Man Person Wealth
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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Equality Happiness Mercy Mindset Satisfaction Virtue
How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
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Character Drink Give Up Happiness Hurt People Poison
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
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Company Fools Heart Himself Pieces See Word
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
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Friendship Happiness People Yourself
What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
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Goodness Man Scripture Waste
A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
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Beautiful Choice Equality Family Man Marriage Respect Status Wisdom
Your feelings are your god.
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Feeling God One Liner Yourself
There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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Dangerous Destruction Lust Moral One Liner Sick
A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
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Beautiful Choice Equality Family Man Marriage Respect Status Wisdom
Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
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Capture Enemy Prison Trust
A ruler wishing to win should not trust a captured enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enmity, however, concealed, will surely come to light.
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Capture Deep Enemy Friendship King Light Prison Rule Trust Win

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