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.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.