"What would it be like to be a sheep? To have no reason, no sense of shame, to be driven by instinct alone? It would be terrible, wouldn't it?"

"If a man has a bad smell, he is not to blame for it, but his clothes. If a man is ill, he is not to blame for it, but his body. If a man is a fool, he is not to blame for it, but his mind."

"Whoever is not content with what he has, would not be content with what he wishes to have."

"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."

"It is better to die of hunger, exempt from grief and fear, than to live in affluence with perturbation."