Property:HPB Gem text
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B
If you depend too servilely upon the good word of other people, you will be unworthy of your own nature. +
If you examine a man that has been well-disciplined and purified by philosophy, you will find nothing that is unsound, false, or foul in him. +
In calamity are men's virtues proved, and by long absence is their friendship tested. +
In every blessing think of its end, in every misfortune think of it removal. +
In health and wealth man is never in want of friends. True friends, however, are those who remain when they are needed. +
In information is shown the wit of man, and in travel is his temper tried. +
In poverty is benevolence assayed, and in the moment of anger is a man's truthfulness displayed. +
In this world, fugitive as tempest-driven waves, death for another is a rich prize earned by virtue in a former birth. +
Intelligence is not shown by witty words, but by wise actions. +
Intelligence is shown by good judgment. +
It is better to do one's own duty, even though imperfectly, than to perform another's duty well. +
It is excellent to impede an unjust man; but if this be not possible, it is excellent not to act in conjunction with him. +
It is not every graceful form that contains as graceful a disposition. +
It is not necessary for truth to put on boxing-gloves. +
It is the business of a musician to harmonize every instrument, but of a well-educated man to adapt himself harmoniously to every fortune. +
It is the property of a divine intellect to be always intently thinking about the beautiful. +
Judge the tree by its fruits, man by his deeds. +
Keep thine eyes open, or Fate will open them for thee. +
Know, will, dare, silence! +
Krishna, the golden-haired god, replied not to the reviling of the King of Chedi. To the roar of the tempest, and not to the jackal's howl, the elephant trumpets a reply. +