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.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

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

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.