Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.