Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

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Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

Bháravi · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 473

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The enemies which rise within the body, hard to be overcome--thy evil passions--should manfully be fought: he who conquers these is equal to the conquerors of worlds.

Bháravi · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 1

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Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.

Bháravi · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 118

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Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

Bháravi · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 13

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The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

Bháravi · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 24