Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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.
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.