“He who refuses to obey cannot command.”

Love doesn’t listen to rumors.

If money were to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.

One who plants grapes by the roadside, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.

To try and to fail is not laziness.

Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool.

Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters.

Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.

A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.

Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you.

A child is what you put into him.

In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it’s the family members who are more worried than the troublesome member.

Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.

However far a stream flows, it doesn’t forget its origin.

When deed speaks, words are nothing.

Every kind of love is love, but self-love is supreme among them.

Restless feet might walk you into a snake pit.