“Hear no evil, and see no evil, abase not thyself, neither sigh and weep. Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great; and wish not the abasement of anyone, that thine own abasement be not exposed.”
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Bahá'u'lláh 27
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Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "The Key"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)
Variant translation:[citation needed]
If you want to know yourself,
Just look how others do it;
If you want to understand others,
Look into your own heart

Views on free will
Source: [Donaldson, Dwight M., The Shi'ite Religion: A History of Islam in Persia and Irak, 1933, 115,130-141, BURLEIGH PRESS]

A Literary History of Persian, Vol. 2, p. 270
Poetry

Tablet to ‘Him Who Will Be Made Manifest’

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”

I Kings 8:41-43 on the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem

“We are always ready to imitate what is evil; and faults are quickly copied where virtues appear inattainable.”
Proclivis est enim malorum aemulatio, et quorum virtutes assequi nequeas, cito imitaris vitia.
Leter 107
Letters

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 515.