“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

A word to the wise is sufficient

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Smooth words in place of gifts.

Badly gotten, badly spent.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Humans call animals ‘dumb’… after they robbed their entire own precious world.

It means the US can’t borrow with ‘exorbitant privilege’ anymore.

Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments.

Suffering belongs to no language.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

It is responsible for smuggling explosives and drugs into Saudi Arabia.