Money has never yet made anyone rich.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

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.