For one to learn passivity, that one must often rely on another’s dominant and divine appointment as the measure of teaching, in order to acquire the trait; and see it as such; and not with the shallow and defeating view as seeing superiority and condescension.
— Papi Proverb 450
An isolated soul will find itself as such; as it spends the daily allotment of time on self-indulgences only.
When then leaves the soul better than when then came the soul worse when then arrives the soul better than when then departed the soul worse.
— Papi Proverb 655
If the leopard cannot change his spots, then neither can he change his appetite. If the Ethiopian cannot change his skin, neither can he change what the darkness covers.
— Papi Proverb 445
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