A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.