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On Rules for Conduct of Life

earth receives [beneficent] showers from heaven and gives to it only [vile] dust: Every vessel exudes what it contains

with a good end is better than a Pâdshâh with a bad one.

The grief thou sufferest before the joy is better than the grief endured after joy.

Most High sees [a fault] and conceals [it], and a neighbour sees [it] not, but shouts.

Let us take refuge with Allah! If people knew our faults no one could have rest from interference by others.

is obtained from a mine by digging it, but from a miser by digging the soul.

Vile men spend not, but preserve. They say hope [of spending] is better than spending. One day thou seest the wish of the foe fulfilled, the gold remaining and the vile man dead.

has no mercy upon inferiors will suffer from the tyranny of superiors.