Book: Moon Of Israel

- There is a woman involved in every case.

Sleep - the end or the beginning of all things? Before we were born, we must have been asleep, because we remember nothing about this time, and after we die, we are likely to sleep, as anyone who has ever seen mummies knows.

All we see is a shadow; and we ourselves are only shadows, and the realities that cast them live in some other country, illuminated by a spiritual sun that never sets.

- I think for the same reason that a dog's back breeds fleas. Fleas must live, and here is just a dog.

If he were alive, he would now be pharaoh instead of my father. But he died too soon. All this makes me think that there is something not quite right in the stories about his wisdom. After all, a truly wise person would never wish to become the pharaoh of Egypt.

Happiness is a bird that no man can snare, although sometimes it flies in through his window of its own accord.

It is necessary to take from life everything it can give, and not to think about the other benefits, because all that will get in the tomb, rotting and crumbles without any benefit.

... life does not end with death, and therefore, love being the soul of life shall last, until the last soul.