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

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

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

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