All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.