Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.

let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.

You will say, “They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.”