“As the sun’s shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth.”

Don’t stop a donkey that is not yours.

Debt severs love.

Every anguish passes except the anguish of hunger.

As long as there are fools in the world no one will be penniless.

No rose is without thorns.

When the wine is free even the judge drinks it.

Between brother and brother accounts should be square.

First food, then religion.

A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

What god wanted was really done.

Don’t be a thief and you won’t fear the king.

A donkey has two friends: his two hind legs.

He appreciates prosperity who is caught in calamity.

There is a way from heart to heart.

The world is the traveler’s inn.

No one says his own buttermilk is sour.