<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512260" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Admonition 10</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wrath beyond measure produces estrangement and untimely kindness destroys authority. Be neither so harsh as to disgust the people with thee nor so mild as to embolden them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Severity and mildness together are best <br> Like a bleeder who is a surgeon and also applies a salve. <br> A wise man uses neither severity to excess <br> Nor mildness; for it lessens his authority. <br> He neither exalts himself too much <br> Nor exposes himself at once to contempt. <br> A youth said to his father: ‘O wise man, <br> Give me for instruction one advice like an aged person.’ <br> He said: ‘Be kind but not to such a degree <br> That a sharp-toothed wolf may become audacious.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sa+di">Sa di</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512260" data-title="Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Admonition 10 de Sa di" data-description="Wrath beyond measure produces estrangement and untimely kindness destroys authority. Be neither so harsh as to disgust the people with thee nor so mild as to embolden them. Severity and mildness together are best Like a bleeder who is a surgeo..."></div> </div> </div>

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