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

A thief thinks everybody steals.

A fight in your neighbor’s house is refreshing.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Faith keeps the world going.

A hundred divine epochs would not suffice to describe all the marvels of the Himalaya.

A monkey that amuses me is better than a deer astray.

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.