Teacher

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we "have a fever" when really the fever has us.

Away with the world's opinion of you—it's always unsettled and divided.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts—which someone can!

The wise man then followed a simple way of life—which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation…you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.