For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.