“One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.”

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.

If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.

You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

We believe slowly when belief brings pain.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.