Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.