The greatest gift you can give someone is your time and attention.
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts only for a day, but the glory of the forbearing lasts until the end of time. Though unjustly aggrieved, it is best to suffer the suffering and refrain from unrighteous retaliation.
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.