O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

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.

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.