Illness tells us what we are.

Italian saying

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Huxley

Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

English Proverb