“There are no rules to be followed in bad times.”

Wealth is a great attraction or Friends are plenty when the purse is full.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasure is like a blacksmith’s bellows – he breathes but does not live.

Educating a person is the best charity.

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.