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.

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

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

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

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

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