Will you who are always full ever understand what need does to people
Rumi on the gulf between the comfortable and the poor, and on how hard it is for the well-fed to grasp what want drives people to.
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Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life
A saying attributed to Confucius on finding work that does not feel like work.
Education without upbringing is a sword in the hands of a madman
Dmitri Mendeleev's warning that instruction without moral formation puts a dangerous weapon into the hands of those who lack judgement.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth
A saying attributed to the Buddha on the truth that always comes to light.
Success bestows much, but never friends
Four maxims from Vauvenargues on success, servitude, habit, and the gulf between small minds and great souls.
You will leave a memory through a kind word and a good deed
Lines from Kutadgu Bilig by the 11th-century Turkic poet Yusuf Khass Hajib Balasaguni on the memory a person leaves behind, and on the value of brief, weighty speech.
A good blacksmith piles up mountains of unworked iron
A Chinese proverb on how true skill shows itself in abundance, and on why kindness and mistakes alike call for careful thought.
A kind word will make even a sword return to its sheath
A kind word will make even a sword return to its sheath, said Amir Temur the Great.
A good merchant hides his wealth and appears poor
A Chinese proverb on why a skilled trader conceals his riches and makes no show of them.
He who commands others is strong, but he who commands himself is stronger still
Laozi on self-mastery as a greater strength than power over other people.
Whoever does not answer anger with anger saves both: himself and the other
A Buddhist saying on the saving power of refusing to meet anger with anger.