You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.