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"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."
"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"
"The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability."
"He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy."
"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."
"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."
"We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment."
"Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits."
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
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