| Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. |
| Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. |
| The generous is never satisfied with riches. |
| If it were to rain, clouds would have appeared. |
| Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. |
| If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. |
| The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. |
| The tongue of experience has most truth. |
| Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. |
| Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. |