Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

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