“When one is in love, a mountain top becomes a flat field.”

A real family eats from the same cornmeal.

Your body is a temple of knowledge.

Examine what is said, not who is speaking.

Don’t set sail on someone else’s star.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

If you educate a man, you educate one person. If you educate a woman, you educate a whole family.

To love someone who doesn’t love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.

Children are the reward of life.

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.

The wise man never takes a step too long for his leg.

Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others.

Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.

A child does not laugh at the ugliness of his mother.

When you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes but the monkey remains.

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.

Just because the lizard nods his head, doesn’t mean he’s in agreement.