Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

The belly has no ears.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.