"Virtue refuses facility for her companion … the easy, gentle, and sloping path that guides the footsteps of a good natural disposition is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road."

"“It directed that every being in the district, without distinction, should he honored with Islam, that the …"

"For me, reality is God, because it rules."

"All is unreality. Nothing is worth discussing, worth desiring."

"Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again.. ..only in transmutat…"

"If insistence on them tends to unsettle established systems ... self-evident truths are by most people sile…"

"He inherited from his mother's stories the fundamental style he used, unaltered, in his own stories: namely…"