Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

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?

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

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

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.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.