“You may look up for inspiration or look down in desperation but do not look sideways for information.”

Alertness and courage are life’s shields.

Don’t delay today’s work until tomorrow.

Every dog is a tiger in his own street.

A man without money is like a bow without arrows.

Complaining is the weak man’s weapon.

Don’t eat your bread on someone else’s table.

There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth.

Life is a bridge, cross over it, but build no house on it.

The eyes do not see what the mind does not want.

The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.

To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

The spouse of a woman is a man, the spouse of a man is his livelihood.

One and one sometimes make eleven.

Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.

The tongue is safe; even among thirty teeth.