There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

By doing good we become good.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.