Book: Kalila and Dimna

Betrayal - the worst of what may come to mind is a man and the deceit and deception will not lead to the good, and the one who resorted to him, always blind and reckless.

Sensible man controls his passions, neglect the speech of the fool and ignorant, does not persist in error, if he sees that he was mistaken, and taken to be the case only when comprehend the essence of it. He is not like a traveler that has lost his way, but continues to wander without a road, not knowing that, knocking out power, he goes farther away from the target. He doesn't look impatient, who rubs his eyes with all the force if they had powder dust, - this can only hurt your eyesight and go blind. Sage believes in fate or predestination, but shows determination in case of need...

If you're active, friendly and do good works, that you have combined three important virtues. But there are three harmful properties, and if they in whom joined him in no way to be good luck. Properties these is the slowness, inefficiency and gullibility. Don't believe everything they say - how often do people bring false news!

Man, endowed with reason, do not be like a pigeon that displays in its nest of Chicks, which she had taken away and killed. But their deaths did not serve her a warning - she again lays eggs and takes the Chicks in the same nest, giving them to the slaughter. And know that Almighty God has set a limit. Do not break it, stop in time for the arrow to not hit that too far and inaccessible.

A reasonable person does not exhaust the soul with envy and regret about what has passed and will never return, no hope that fate will send him unexpected good luck and happiness. Tell you a parable:
Some people were needy, hungry and naked. Poverty forced him to seek the assistance of family and friends, but they did not have no food, no clothes, no money, which they would be able to share with him. The poor man went to his home and went to bed on an empty stomach. Deep in the night he woke up from barely audible rustle, and realized that the house was broken into by thief. The owner of the house was about to catch the robber, but then said to myself: "by God, I have nothing to fear, I'll be damned if the thief will find in my house something valuable." But the thief was not richer than the owner. He long searched and finally found a clay pot filled with wheat. He said to himself: "Is all my hard work tonight will be in vain? Honestly, it'll be dawn soon, and I can't find no more prey. Spares me the wheat." He immediately took off his shirt, lay her on the floor, began to pour it from a pot of wheat. Then the master of the house thought: "can I let this worthless to carry off my wheat, because I have no more stocks! Not only that, I have nothing to cover the body, I still remain without a piece of bread! Then, I piled together the cold and hunger, and before these enemies will not stand the most valiant warrior!" Taking a stick, standing in his head, the master of the house screamed, and the robber fled in fear, abandoning their prey. He left not only wheat, but also his shirt, so as not to lose one's life. And the poor man covered his nakedness, for he went to the clothes of the thief.
Not befitting an intelligent man to rely on such a dubious fortune and rely on the case, leaving aside all care and concern about their daily bread. It needs to be active and not be deluded by the example of who is favored by fate without any effort on his part, because it is a great rarity, the greater part of the human race consists of people that tireless work and worry are tiring your mind and body in order to get at least a little. The aim should be to those things that are permissible tools are purchased and are lavished with benefits and avoid anything that can cause grief and unhappiness.

Enduring virtue and righteous wealth is like dry wood that feeds the flame of wisdom; flexibility and diminishing the honor cowardice - like water that fills the flame of virtue and opens the door to ignorance and darkness.

Cursed be he who seeks wealth and honor by any means, who despised the honor and be treated courteously. It is said that two men dressed congregation - one who has not committed any evil act, and one whose wealth righteously. And the other two all the more reprehensible - the king, conceding its power to a temporary worker - court, and the husband sharing his wife with a lover.

Seeking to enforce their desires must set a target and outline the limits of their claims, and then to act according to what is planned. The proverb says: "Who's in a hurry no way, that camel will break your legs". The surest way - not to seek the unattainable, not to hope for the impossible, not to grieve, if you don't get that and others not given in hand, and not to love this fickle world of the future eternal life, for he who is not has his heart to worldly passions and desires, suffers less at parting with them.

A wise and learned man must know himself and to control himself, and this is all his wisdom and all knowledge. Only then can he look to his neighbor and give them good advice. Otherwise, be like he the source, generously endowing your water, but not receiving instead of gratitude, or silk worm, cleverly intertwining their home, which will destroy him, for the robe of worm, the cocoon is immersed in boiling water, and unwound a strong thread from which is woven of the precious fabric.
Seek wisdom must first kindle in the light, and then really light up the road to his companions, for every living among people in this world is obliged to share with them not only possessions, but also knowledge and this is the greatest blessing. The wise do not blame the middle for the defects which are peculiar to him, for it will become like a blind man cursing the blind for his blindness.

Many of those that seemed afraid to do good deeds, but not afraid to make inappropriate, least of all a forgiving those koi are able to distinguish good from evil and understand the superiority and the advantages of good. After all, if you fall into the abyss sighted and the blind, whom fate has brought in the way that the guilty are endowed with vision, seeing the road but not ostregheta, a blind man also does not know where he was going.

About death, look into your soul, and see what desires and passions are calling you to what the mind considers harmful! How similar are you to the stranger that drags on the disastrous path, not knowing where he was going! Do not be a slave of unbridled passions and low desires, do your duty, as experience tells you, do not despise the advice of the wise man, or like the patient, whose gluttony and greed to make harmful and prefer heavy food light and healthy, although he is aware of properties of all foods and beverages and he knows that will strengthen his illness, and that will save you from the disease.

... I found that it was difficult easy and the impossible achievable, the trouble seemed to me to be happy, and resentment pleasures, and constantly remembered, I that should do the trick, at least with their lives.

... Only persistence leads to welfare and success in the earthly world and the hereafter.

... The ability to keep a secret - the first property to a good husband. If the mystery became a reliable and modest, you can be sure that he will never reveal it, because incapable of it by nature. You can't keep a secret, if two guys, whom she is known, discuss it among themselves and lead about that long speech. After all, if something knows two chatty, that will inevitably be the third, the attorney of one of them and then said disperse around the world, so don't deny it - it is impossible to deny irrefutable. After all, if after a storm the clouds parted and the sky cleared, no one will say: "went Down a storm cloud."