“Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price”

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.

And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.