What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.