Wealth is the slave of wise man. The master of a fool.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.