Thoughts That Win

[Tutashkhia]

"It makes me wonder to think there are men who make a show of their love.
Why add pain to a heart, already wounded by love?
It they have no love for her then why do they hide their hatred?
But an evil man loves an evil word more than his soul."

"That which we give makes us richer, that which is hoarded is loSt"

"The lion's whelp is a lion, be it male or female"

"A welcome guest should have a cheerful host."

"sometimes speech is better than silence, sometimes by speaking we spoil (things)"

"It is better to have no man at all than to have a dissatisfied one."

~All by Shota Rustaveli,from his epic poem "The Man in the Panther's Skin" 1662 strophe he wrote in the 12th century.