In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

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

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.

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.

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

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.