""Try hard that your time may be four hours: one hour is for supplicating God, one hour for the affairs of the livelih…"

""Tell yourselves of neither poverty nor a long lifetime, for whoever tells himself of poverty becomes miserly. Whoeve…"

"Cheerfulness and good nature, purge hatred and rancour."

"Anger is the key to any evil."

"The likeness of this world is as the water of the sea - however much a thirsty person drinks from it, his thirst incr…"

"Human beings have not been given anything higher than wisdom and intellect."

"Learn sciences which offer you both your corrective destinies and corrective threats."

"Silence is a great wisdom."

"Association with a learned one in the slums, is by far better than sitting with an ignorant person on sumptuous and l…"

""Little work from a scholar is doubly accepted; much work from the men of low desire and ignorance is refused.":309"