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A daughter is a possession to her father which is not his own.

The same person advised to leave modesty to children rather than gold.

The reproach of a father is agreeable medicine, for it contains more that is useful than it contains of that which gives pain.

He who has been lucky in a son in law has found a son: but he who has been unlucky, has lost also a daughter.

The value of education (knowledge) like that of gold is valued in every place.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which. is about God.

Nothing among animals is so beautiful as a man adorned by learning (knowledge).

We ought to avoid the friendship of the bad and the enmity of the good.

The necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies.

When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.