Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!
Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.