It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.