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11. Some More Aphorisms
He who can objectively evaluate his inner-self is a genuine ascetic.
The present moment is important, strive to make it fruitful.
Absorb the meaningful and relinquish the meaningless.
Not wealth but nobility of conduct is necessary for moving the wheel of righteousness.
An idle and inactive person finds faults with everything and everyone, not withstanding his own shortcomings. If one is inactive, his qualities become defects in due
course.
There is no greater suffering than hunger.
Knowledge alone does not enable a task to be accomplished.
Ignorant is he who thinks that he makes others sad or happy, the wise do not reflect thus.
One should not reveal the secrets of others.
Mankind is one.
