You [humans] think that you an insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.