Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

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.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

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

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works.