Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.