Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

An enemy should be struck at his weak point.

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.