The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

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

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.