Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

No one can have all he desires.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.