However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.