Quotes by Syrian authors

"No man is happy who does not think himself so"

"An angry father is most cruel towards himself"

"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself"

"A good reputation is more valuable than money"

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own"

"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly"

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them"

"Practice is the best of all instructors"

"It is better to learn late than never"

"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones"

"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world"

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth"

"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason"

"A beautiful face is a mute recommendation"

"Where there is unity there is always victory"

"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself"

"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing"

"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others"

"It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay"

"He who spares the bad injures the good"

"He who has lost honor can lose nothing more"

"Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken"

"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy"

"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs"

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit"

"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage"

"It is only the ignorant who despise education"

"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity"

"We die as often as we lose a friend"

"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back"