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Nobody is nobody's friend, nobody is nobody's wellwisher. Persons become friends or enemies only form motive of interest.

Bhishma Pitamaha
BC (Before Common Era)
India
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The greatest virtue is to bear insult without resentment.

Bhishma Pitamaha
BC (Before Common Era)
India
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Who understands quickly, pursues objects with judgment, listens patiently, waste not breathe on others affairs; possesses foremost mark of wisdom truly.

Vidur
BC (Before Common Era)
India
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Who ignores not weak foe, with intellect waits for his opportunity, who displays in season ability, with the stronger desires no hostility; grieves not in calamity, applying all senses, patiently bearing misery, is wise - foremost of persons and all his foes but vanquished to be.

Vidur
BC (Before Common Era)
India
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Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Chanakya
BC (Before Common Era)
India
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Chanakya
BC (Before Common Era)
India
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No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier - instead it should aim at making people stronger.

Samrat Ashoka
BC (Before Common Era)
India
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It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honor to whatever in them is worthy of honor.

Samrat Ashoka
BC (Before Common Era)
India
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One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Guru Nanak
1001-1500 AD
India
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There is but One God. His name is Truth, He is the creator, He fears none, He is without hate. He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realised by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and have ever been True, He is also True now.

Guru Nanak
1001-1500 AD
India
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