Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your, knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way.
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.
Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow