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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

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The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.

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As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

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The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

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Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.

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Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

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Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

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Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

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The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

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Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

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The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.

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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

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