Even when months and days are long, life is short.
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To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.
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The human heart is neither of stone nor wood.
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You can see heaven through the eye of the needle.
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Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart.
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He who sits in the shade won't take an axe to the tree.
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