If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.
O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.
Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep
He who honestly instructs reverences God.
Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.