It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?