A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!