If thou desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.
Had declared himself an egg merchant. If thou select one of thy baskets and put into it each morning ten eggs and take out from it each evening nine eggs, what will eventually happen? It will beco...
Una parte de todo lo que gano me revierte y la he de conservar.
Thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself w...
That shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.
إن كان المرء يحمل في نفسه روح العبد، أفلن يصبح عبداً بعد ذلك، مهما كانت حالته عند مولده، تماماً كما أن الماء لا بد أن يستقر على حال؟ وإذا كان المرء يحمل في نفسه روح الرجل الحر، أفلن يصبح في موضع احترا...
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.
Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us. Alas, they cannot be forgotten. In the front rank of the tormen...
Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse.
Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. General desires are but weak longings. For a man to wish to be rich is of little purpose. For a man to desire five pie...
Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.
Si aprende a fijarse un pequeño deseo bien definido, ello lo llevará a fijarse otro más grande.
So must every man master his own spirit of procrastination before he can expect to share in the rich treasures of Babylon.
That is truth, Kobbi, unpleasant thought though it be. We do not wish to go on year after year living slavish lives. Working, working, working! Getting nowhere.
The man who became of his understanding of the laws of wealth, acquireth a growing surplus, should give thought to those future days. He should plan certain investments or provisions that may endure s...
What each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
The thoughts of youth,' he continued, 'are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that t...
This, then, is the fourth cure for a lean purse, and of great importance if it prevent thy purse from being emptied once it has become well filled. Guard thy treasure from loss by investing only where...
This, then, is the sixth cure for a lean purse. Provide in advance for the needs of thy growing age and the protection of thy family.
Thus come many blessings to the man who owneth his own house. And greatly will it reduce his cost of living, making available more of his earnings for pleasures and the gratification of his desires. T...
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