The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.