Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
Luck cannot change birth.
It is not permitted that we should know everything.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.