To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

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

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.