The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.