It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.