Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.
Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.