Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.