Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

None can be so true to your secret as yourself.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

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

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