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.

Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.

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

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.

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?

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

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.