It’s better to find success through God, than finding it on one’s own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it’s with gratitude.

I take every job on its merits.

[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It’s just like the crow,...

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Then the voice – which identified itself as the prince of this world, the only being who really knows what happens on Earth – began to show him the people around him on the beach....