It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

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.

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.