He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.

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.

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.