Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

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.