Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.