Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
Consult your friend on all things especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
What nature requires is obtainable and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
For greed all nature is too little.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare that force us to grow old in camp that dash us upon foreign shores.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.