The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

How is it that the sky feeds the stars?