If you are truly persevering in virtue, what is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has no milk will not be purchased, even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell.

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Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years.

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A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

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