Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.