It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
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.