A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
A poem is like a painting.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.