Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The lie is a condition of life.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.