If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

He who honestly instructs reverences God.

Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.