A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.

Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.