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.

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.

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

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

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

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.