Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

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.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.