“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”

“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”

“A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.”

“The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.”

“Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.”

“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,are your own nature reflected in them.”

“You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.”