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• Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,…
• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the…
• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs…
• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy…
• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,…
• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,…
• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…

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