Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich.

Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).

To have ability for eating when dishes are ready at hand, to be robust and virile in the company of one's religiously wedded wife, and to have a mind for making charity when one is prosperous are the fruits of no ordinary austerities.

The hearts of base men burn before the fire of other's fame, and they slander them being themselves unable to rise to such a high position.