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If you are thoughtful, don't trust the untrustworthy.

Know that the one who is not sincere in love is a pretender and a hypocrite by nature.

Of all those who left without a trace, will anyone come back here to tell the story?

Of all that fate makes more unfair, it is separation, for the soul, that is the hardest.

True friendship is founded on closeness of mind and unseen laws, and not visible signs.

Every unfulfilled promise is like a cloud without water, like a dull sword, like a tree without fruit.

How often, obeying the voice of passion for a single hour, we pay for it with days of sadness.

Who in his youth did not love, Let him know that he lived in vain.

Worldly goods, being based on deception, falsehood and fabrication, are transitory in nature.

The sage must not stop in the city where there are not five things: first, a righteous, severe and strong ruler; secondly, streams and fat lands; thirdly, learned men endowed with practical knowledge and measure; fourthly, skilful and merciful physicians; fifth, generous benefactors.

Do not speak rash words, so as not to fall unawares into an unpleasant situation.

Not everyone who seeks and strives finds, not everyone who leaves comes back.

No prudent man will incur the punishment and reproach of men for the sake of gratifying passion and unbridled lust, nor will he set himself to neglect the truth for the sake of fleeting and imaginary things.

Don't push your friend away because of a little joke and don't get upset because that's a sign of stupidity.

Human customs and laws are such that, if at the beginning of growth, even from childhood, in the fullness of the powers of youth, when the mind and reason are very receptive and not overloaded, when the endowment and possibilities are great - if in this desire man does not realize nothing in the sciences, then he will achieve nothing in his lifetime.

The foundations of any state and the foundation of any country are based on law and justice.

The word is wonderful, because in it remains the memory of man. We leave the word, but our words remain forever.

It is not fitting for the wise man to ask kings what their thoughts and secrets are.

Religion without power perishes, and power without religion ceases to function.

Take counsel with the wise, that you may avoid folly, and that your deeds may not deviate from the right path.

He who listens to the gossiper and slanderer, who trusts him, is in a difficult situation which right reason cannot correct or remove.

Fate does nothing serious without a humorous note, and gives nothing without taking something.

The king who fills his treasury with the goods of his subjects is like one who smears the roof of his house with clay taken from its foundation.

What the young man is used to seeing in the mirror, the same thing an old man sees in a brick.

At least one of these two things leads to the end, If you want to be known in front of the world: What you know, teach others, and learn from others what you don't know!

Man's thought is the crown of all that is alive, And the pure soul is the foundation of life. My friend is the brightest mirror! The servant is not worth taking into the house. And don't gossip, if you don't want to end up with bad news.

The immortality of animals lies in offspring, but of man in renown, merits and deeds.

Prosperity brings out man's faults better, and misfortune highlights his virtues.