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.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.