So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Hunger is the best sauce.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.