A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.