“The world wants to be deceived.”

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

He has gone over to the majority.

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

What power has law where only money rules?

Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.

People know when they’ve betrayed themselves. They are very much aware when they are not honest with themselves. They hear the voice that says, “You shouldn’t have said that” or “You know that’s not right.”

If you betray yourself, you are no different from the people who hurt you. What’s the difference between those people who hurt you and what you are doing to yourself?

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.