"I prefer to be a devil in a city than an angel in a desert."

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

"There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever."

"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"It is clear that the more a man has, the more he wants; and the more he wants, the more he suffers."