It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

If people scrutinize their own faults as they do the faults of others,Mankind will be freed of all evil.

There is a limit for everything. You can’t just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it’s light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.

Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.

Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

Folded hands may conceal a dagger –Likewise a foe’s tears.

The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,Gathers and melts.

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.

If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman’s form.

Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That would be a shame

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

Just as the hand rushes involuntarily to protect one’s honor in case of accidental state of undress, so does a friend come to his friend’s aid without being asked

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.