May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'