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.
Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep
To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.