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| Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away. | 1 |
| Foolish people are a hundred times more averse to meet with wise people than wise people are to meet with foolish. | 2 |
| Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor. | 3 |
| God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. | 4 |
| He who learns and makes no use of his learning is a beast of burden with a load of books. | 5 |
| He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labours in his fields but does not sow. | 6 |
| I fear God, and, next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. | 7 |
| In every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man. | 8 |
| Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. | 9 |
| Kindness out of season destroys authority. | 10 |
| Knowledge is a perennial spring of wealth,… and of itself is riches. | 11 |
| Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them. | 12 |
| 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. | 13 |
| Poverty snatches the reins out of the hands of piety. | 14 |
| Scorn to trample upon a worm or to sneak to be an emperor. | 15 |
| Speak in such a manner between two enemies, that, should they afterwards become friends, you may not be put to the blush. | 16 |
| That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted will find you wherever you may be. | 17 |
| The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. | 18 |
| The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. | 19 |
| The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. | 20 |
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| The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. | 21 |
| The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not enclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. | 22 |
| The traveller without observation is a bird without wings. | 23 |
| There is safety in solitude. | 24 |
| They asked Lucman the fabulist, “From whom did you learn manners?” He answered, “From the unmannerly.” | 25 |
| To receive gifts is to lose liberty. | 26 |
| Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. | 27 |
| What is not allotted the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted will find you wherever you may be. | 28 |
| When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wretchedness he begins to slander. | 29 |
| When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; when it is full, the spirit becomes body. | 30 |
| Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky. | 31 |
| Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practise it, is as one who ploughs but does not sow. | 32 |
| Whosoever hath not patience, neither doth he possess philosophy. | 33 |
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