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

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 touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

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

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

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