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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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I am ungrateful to these teachers.

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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.

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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

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