The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.
Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.
God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.