Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world.

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.