That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

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.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.