Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.