Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.