If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

To move the world we must move ourselves.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

Contentment is natural wealth.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.