No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.