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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.

Saadi

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Body Deep Empty Food Spirit Spiritual
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
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Character Doubt Mistake Yourself
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Argument Discover Ignorance Order Wisdom Yourself
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
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Dog Forget Friendship Himself
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
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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Company Intelligence Need Society
Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog’s mouth with a crumb.
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Dog Goodness Talk
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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Animal Beyond Creation Dog Excellence Gratitude Human Man Worth
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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Forgiveness God Myself Prayer Sin
Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
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Appearance Deep Mindset Virtue
All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.
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Body Compassion Essence Human Pain Suffering Yourself
Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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Body Empty Mindset See Soul Wisdom
None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
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Secret True Yourself
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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Forgiveness Oppression Wound
Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
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Desire Feeling Selfish
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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Forgiveness God Myself Prayer Sin

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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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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