Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?

The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.

A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.