Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!

As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day.

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.