The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your, knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way.

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

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.