But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

death was the price of life.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.