When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.