But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.