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| Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? | [▲] | [▼] |
| The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Although a cloth be washed a hundred times, how can it be rendered clean and pure if it be washed in water which is dirty? | [▲] | [▼] |
| Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. | [▲] | [▼] |
| An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. | [▲] | [▼] |
| This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions. | [▲] | [▼] |
| When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child? | [▲] | [▼] |
| A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. | [▲] | [▼] |
| He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes. | [▲] | [▼] |