Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins. No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth. Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.

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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

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Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

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Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned

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