If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

The best revenge is to improve yourself.

Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.

Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.