So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

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.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.