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Two. What a person consumes at the beginning of indulgence eventually consumes that person. What brings joy through purchase eventually purchases the person. The time we squander will, in time, squander us.
Three. What can be bought with money is best enjoyed by spending money on it. That which has a price but is obtained without payment—for such things, if the price is not paid then, an exorbitant price must be paid later.
Four. What brings happiness, if not relinquished at the right moment, will abandon us at the wrong moment of its own accord. If the sources of happiness leave us rather than being left by us, the consequence is bitter. Therefore, before it is too late, one must learn to make room for necessary sorrow in life.
Five. If something we have never possessed before comes to us in life without effort, it is better not to accept it. Deserved sorrow is safer than undeserved joy.
Six. One whose days pass in imagining false laughter will pass one's nights in the actual experience of true tears.
Seven. The candle itself does not know how much fire can burn; how should the moth know? Woman herself does not know how much beauty can reduce to ash; how should man know?
Eight. The comfort of home, the tenderness of children, the security of wealth, the affection of husband or wife, the companionship of friends, the exuberance of youth—if none of these are excluded from the list of things to be enjoyed, how can the joy of knowledge ever find its way into the human heart?
Nine. Whoever has once been enchanted by the pleasure of standing on another's feet will not easily seek the satisfaction of standing on one's own.
Ten. Love without peace will, in time, breed utter disgust. Peace without love will forever remain in search of ultimate contentment. Beware of one who knows only how to love but not how to bring peace! Many people in this world have taken their own lives despite receiving love; but not a single person has ever done so despite receiving peace.
Eleven. What is obtained but not deserved—many people in this world have been destroyed trying to bear the weight of such things.
Twelve. A person listens with full attention only to the tale of sorrow that once pointed the way to happiness. No one wishes to hear the account of sorrow that has brought only sorrow.
Thirteen. The less capable a person is of doing something himself, the more readily he finds the time and taste to talk nonsense about another's accomplishments.
Fourteen. Some people, though masters of oceans, remain silent as a drop of water; others, though overseers of a single drop, roar like the sea!
Fifteen. If one marries without proper thought, in haste, then endless leisure for regret is furnished for one's entire lifetime.
Sixteen. It is far better to starve than to extend one's hand before a wealthy man of small stature.
Seventeen. We spend so much of our daily time attending to the feelings of others. If we spent even half that time in good company with our own heart, our suffering would diminish, and the serene tranquility of the heart would spread joy through both body and mind.
Eighteen. The things a person once received in hand yet neglected and let slip away—even after crying bitterly much later, such things can never be found again. This is the judgment of nature.
Nineteen. Everything you inflict as pain today, you will receive back in full measure with interest.
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**Twenty.**
Some are restless because they never received what they sought; others are restless because they did. From a distance, before we possess a thing, it seems magnificent to behold.**Twenty-One.**
The person whom someone allows to slip away—that very person becomes the companion of their entire life.**Twenty-Two.**
We think, "I suffer now, one day I shall live in great joy!"—as if we actually knew our lives were destined to be long. What vanity in that assumption.**Twenty-Three.**
A person whose eye is only upon enjoyment cannot wear the dignity of renunciation on their face. Association with such hypocrites is perilous.**Twenty-Four.**
Some weep for the want of friends; others weep because of the nature of their friends. Risk lies both ways. Better to live in solitude with oneself—there lies true joy.**Twenty-Five.**
Why does one person's suffering, one person's vigil of waiting, never end? Why does another's end so quickly? Whether waiting itself brings happiness, or whether the ending of waiting brings it—this cannot be said with certainty.**Twenty-Six.**
When giving something, we give it to those who need us; we do not give it to those who need the thing itself.**Twenty-Seven.**
The flatterer and the friend are not the same. Most of us take the flatterer for a friend and the friend for a critic.**Twenty-Eight.**
In this land, if you admit a mistake, even one small enough to forgive, forgiveness will not come. Instead, everyone becomes certain that you have indeed erred—simply because you yourself confessed it.**Twenty-Nine.**
The heart rises and it falls. There is no harm in this. Trouble comes only when the heart falls at the very moment it should rise, and rises when it should fall.**Thirty.**
If people were half as eager to know themselves as they are to know others, they could rise to such a place that many would wish to know them.**Thirty-One.**
No wealth is greater than health. No helplessness greater than sickness. Only when ill do we know how near or far those we called close truly are. Poverty is preferable to illness.**Thirty-Two.**
The house that dies of thirst for want of water—when fire comes to that very house, see how water is never scarce to quench it.**Thirty-Three.**
Should there come a time when status fades or diminishes, when wealth is lost, when flatterers abandon you, when you can count your true friends on one hand, when even your own family's regard slowly erodes—if a person still cannot recognize life, then that person is truly worthless.**Thirty-Four.**
Be wary of those whose joy and sorrow change their source from day to day.**Thirty-Five.**
He whose ears find even good words bitter because he dislikes the speaker will find it very difficult to go far in life.**Thirty-Six.**
You cannot know the inhabitants by looking at the house. You cannot know the house by looking at its people.**Thirty-Seven.**
From fear of losing what we possess, we quarrel constantly with happiness itself. But once we relinquish that fear even once, our friendship with happiness becomes unshakeable. And he who has no fear of loss—what sorrow can touch him?**Thirty-Eight.**
If someone once thought ill of you, be wary of them even if they now think well of you—for they can return to their former judgment in a heartbeat.**Thirty-Nine.**
Creating unrest is a kind of vice. Even if such a person loves you a hundred times, their company must be abandoned—for peace is greater than love.To love living is not half as necessary as peace is.
Forty. It is best to remain silent if you know nothing of a matter. To speak without knowledge is a terrible habit. Those possessed of such a habit gradually lose the respect of others. People do not dishonor ignorance, but they do dishonor the pretense of knowledge. Silence keeps dignity intact; false wisdom destroys it.
Forty-one. Do not lend money to anyone in hopes of profit. And if you must lend, lend only what you can afford to lose without it weighing on your heart. The mental anguish of a loan unpaid causes far greater suffering than the happiness any profit would have brought. What makes it worse is that you do not enjoy the borrowed money alone—your whole family shares in its benefit. Yet all the mental torment of its loss falls upon you alone. When people borrow, they dress themselves in poverty; when they refuse to repay, they dress in poverty still, or even in the garments of a thief!
Forty-two. What the world gives freely is worthless—so worthless that one may have to pay a terrible price for it later. If you lack the will or the readiness to pay the price for something, abandon all hope of obtaining it. Even that which comes without cost requires effort, requires striving. And what is there in this world more precious than the striving itself?
Forty-three. The company of a wise person whom you despise is better than the company of a fool whom you love. A person may be contemptible, but the knowledge they have acquired is never contemptible. Pure milk in a broken vessel remains pure; adulterated milk in a golden vessel does not become pure when the water is removed—it remains what it always was. Do not turn away because you see a broken pot; do not rush forward because the pot is golden. Let your eyes be on the milk, not on the vessel.
Forty-four. It is better to listen to the natural speech of a wise person than to hear a fool discourse on philosophy. Better to hear a good teacher tell a story than to sit through a bad teacher's lecture.
Forty-five. Solitude is a thousand times better than the company of the wrong person. To speak with yourself is far more comforting than to speak with someone who cannot understand you.
Forty-six. It matters less how the food tastes than who has cooked it. To expect fair judgment about the flavor and quality of a dish from one who cares only about the cook—this is foolishness.
Forty-seven. The person who lives seeing a rope as a snake will one day be killed by a rope's bite. But the person who sees a snake and thinks it a rope cannot be harmed by snakes anymore, for they have been dead for a long time already.
Forty-eight. You must balance the equation of your own happiness yourself. If you place it in the hands of family, friends, or relatives, there will be no equation, and there will be no happiness.
Forty-nine. The first step toward light is to acknowledge that you are in darkness.
Fifty. When the wise are given the chance to speak, they remain silent if there is nothing good to say. When the foolish are given the chance to speak, they speak endlessly, as long as there is anything—anything at all—to say.