You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

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

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.