Property:HPB Gem text
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Great works need no great strength, but perseverance. +
Grief and wrath, avarice and desire, delusion and laziness, vindictiveness and vanity, envy and hatred, censoriousness and slander – are the twelve sins destructive of man's bliss. +
Grieve not about thy sustenance; nature will supply it. When a creature is born, the mother's breast supplies milk. +
Harmony is the law of life, discord its shadow; whence springs suffering, the teacher, the awakener of consciousness. +
Hatred is never quenched by hatred; hatred ceases by showing love; this is an old rule. +
Having tasted the sweetness of illusion and tranquillity, one becomes free from fear, and free from sin, drinking in the sweetness of Dharma (law). +
He is a man who does not turn away from what he has said. +
He that does a memorable action, and those who report it, are all but short-lived things. +
He that is so anxious about being talked of when he is dead, does not consider that all who knew him will quickly be gone. +
He who bestows bounty on mankind, makes of mankind his debtor in a future birth. +
He who casts off all desires, living free from attachments, and free from egoism, obtains bliss. +
He who does not recognize the bread and salt is worse than a wild wolf. +
He who feeds the hungry before he has assuaged his own hunger, prepares for himself eternal food. He who renounces that food for the sake of a weaker brother is – a god. +
He who has been once deceived, dreads evil, and suspects it even in truth. +
He who hath subdued himself, may hope to subdue others. One's own self is the most difficult to master. +
He who hath too many friends, hath as many candidates for enemies. +
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, is called a real driver; other people are but holders of the reins. +
He who is not lowly in his own sight, will never be exalted in the sight of others. +
He who keeps to his business, he who loves his companions, he who does his duty, will never be poor. +
He who kisses the hand he cannot cut off, will have his head cut off by the hand he now kisses in the next rebirth. +