By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

The true man breathes with his heels.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.