Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.