"All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion."
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."
"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
"Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one."
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
"striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."