We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.