“Life is a cycle of happiness followed by sufferings and vice versa.”

The wicked see every fault in others even if they are small as mustard seeds

If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.

A fool who knows he is a fool has a little intelligence, but a fool that thinks he is intelligent is really a fool.

There is no bigger virtue than compassion.

There are none so deaf as those who will not hear advice.

Diligence is mother of good luck.

Take a close look at today, because yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is barely a vision.

Truth has but one color, a lie has many.

Excess in all matters is to be avoided.

Over-affection is apt to suspect evil.

A woman’s appetite is twice that of a man’s; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.

One should save for a rainy day.

Coming events cast their shadow before.

Wisdom is the right measure of one’s strength.

There are no rules to be followed in bad times.

The greatest hero is one who has control over his desires.