The world itself is too small for the covetous.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.