“He who has a true friend, has no need of a mirror.”

A man without money is like a bow without arrows.

To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman.

When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine.

Patience is the most beautiful prayer.

To control the mind is like trying to control a drunken monkey that has been bitten by a scorpion.

Whoever eats a pancake never counts the holes in it.

If you live on the river, befriend the crocodile.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

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

Without love everything is in vain.

You should not call in a cat to settle the argument of two birds.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

In a tree that you can’t climb, there are always a thousand fruits.

Pearls are of no value in a desert.

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

They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.