The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.