Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.