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.

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

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.

Tradizione araba · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 564

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

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.

Tradizione araba · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 108

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

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

Tradizione araba · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 148

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

Poverty without debt is independence.

Tradizione araba · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 208

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

What avails your wealth, if it makes you arrogant to the poor?

Tradizione araba · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 267