Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.