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When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
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Animal Eat Excellence Men Praise Sleep
Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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Accomplishment Patience Ruin
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
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God Myself Rich Satisfaction Wealth
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Best Character Charity God Humility Love Rich
He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
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Book Carry Learning Library Stupidity
A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
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Beautiful Money Worth
Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
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Care Listening Yourself
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
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Compassion Kindness Lust
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
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Action Book Empty Fire Himself Intellectual Learning Philosophy Study Wisdom
If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.
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Gold Pieces Worth
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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Healing Lying Scars Truth Wound
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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Friendship Stranger
Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
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Bold Encouragement Shy
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.
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Judgement Men Silence Talk Virtue Wisdom
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
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Hurry Wasted
The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.
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Harmony Heart Music Togetherness
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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Deep Entertainment Friendship Wisdom
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
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Bad Earth Face Fortune Heaven Nature
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
Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
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Beautiful End Equality Joy Sorrow Time
Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
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Care Expectation Himself Listening Oneself Perfection Return Voice
Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
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Angry Kindness Limitation People Respect Season
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
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
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Fear Hands Himself Jewel Thinking
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
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Feeling Human Pain Suffering Yourself
Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
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Fight Power Togetherness Unity Win
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
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Happiness Sex Voice Woman

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