Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people