"The more perfect a thing is, the more it is subject to good and bad."

"The more divine the thing, the more it is hated by the wicked."

"My guide and I entered that hidden road to return to the bright world; and without thought of any rest, we climbed up, he first and I second, to the point where I saw, through a round opening, some of…"

"O human race, born for flight to heaven, why do you fall for a breath of wind?"

"O you who have sound intellects, look closely at the doctrine that is hidden beneath the veil of the strange verses!"