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.

Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

The best revenge is to improve yourself.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.