“Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.”

If they don’t exchange a few words, father and son will never know one another.

Patience is the most beautiful prayer.

Follow the river and you will get to the sea.

You do not stumble over a mountain, but you do over a stone.

Stolen sugar is the sweetest.

There is no hand to catch time.

Love from someone who is bad is worse than his hatred.

When you have an ass for a friend, expect nothing but kicks.

Only two things matter in this world: a son and a daughter.

A man without a woman is only half a man.

Never do tomorrow, what you can do today.

If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.

A friend advises in his interest, not yours.

Pearls are of no value in a desert.

Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.