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A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone. - [Friends] A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure. - [Beauty] A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. - [Travel] A wise man in the company of those who are ignorant has been compared by the sages to a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. - [Ignorance] An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. - [Lust] Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your, knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. - [Enemies] Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people. - [Benevolence] But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. - [Gluttony] Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away. - [Education] Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God. - [Fear] Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor. - [Forgiveness] God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. - [Sleep] He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books. - [Learning] He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. - [Wisdom] He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend. - [Oppression] Hunger is a cloud out of which falls a rain of eloquence and knowledge; when the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; when it is full, the spirit becomes body. - [Appetite] I fear God, and next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. - [God] I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load. - [Habit] Improve time in the present; for opportunity is precious, and time is a sword. - [Opportunity] Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. - [Enemies] It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy. - [Enemies] Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them. - [Gifts] 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. - [Ingratitude] No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart. - [Generosity] O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. - [Contentment] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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