However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
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.