When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

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.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

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

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.