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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Collector Of Fairy Tales
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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