The Arabian Nights

by Andrew Lang

if you do not fear death, fear at any rate the anguish you would cause me.”

“Whoso meddles in affairs that are no business of his, will hear truths that will not please him.”

Everybody is not obliged to live in the same way.”

have as many eyes as you like, but no tongues; and ask no questions about anything you see, however strange it may appear to you.”

time teaches us submission,

“there are many out-of-the-way things it is as well to know, but one should never boast of them.”