God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.
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.
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.