Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Every man knows the smell of his own fart.

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.