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.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

You talk one way, you live another.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.