The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it