Scratch yourself with your own nails; always do your own business, and when you intend asking for a service, go to a person who can appreciate your merit.

Arabic Proverb

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Riches disclose in a man?s character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty.

The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.

All sunshine makes a desert.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe.

All sunshine makes the desert.

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Sad are only those who understan.

Poverty without debt is independence.

If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.

Ask not a man who his father was but make trial of his qualities, and then conciliate or reject him accordingly. For it is no disgrace to new wine, if only it be sweet, as to its taste, that it was the juice [or daughter] of sour grapes.

After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile.