Love and lust are these options. And both promise to satisfy by offering the other if you would only give them complete obedience. One of them lies, and it is not the one men oft sacrifice.
There are only two choices in life. This being the utmost difficult of choices. Not because we know not which choice is strongest, but that we know not (which) we have in surety.
Not every man’s desire for fortune is to please himself. A man who desires for people to experience happiness is such a rarity that it will always be considered a blatant lie.
The owner of a club just like the owner of a nation, is pleased, not by the amount of estate that belongs to him. But by the pleasure that their possession offers its participants.
649. Do not search and wander without attaining any [worthy] state in spite of having learnt all arts and having heard all that are to be heard. Simply to remain as love in Him who shines as love, is the state supreme!
To have too many critics in a society is a scary thing. Which is why the states that seem to prosper the most always seem to be fluent in the arts.
It is very simple. Those who do not produce, destroy. And there is no way to dodge this fact.