We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."