Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

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

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.