The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

The wisest men follow their own direction.