Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.

Either you are just or unjust. If you are just, then you will not keep aloof from the people, but will listen to them and meet their requirements. But if you are unjust, the people themselves will keep away from you.

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.