Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb.
That grief is light which can take counsel.
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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.
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it.
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
Who has more leisure than a worm?
If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
Be harsh with yourself at times.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.