To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
