Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.