The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist