"For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow."

"Don't be surprised if those outside are always talking against you and making jokes about you."

"Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power."

"If you want to be a man of honour, you must be a man of honour. If you want to be a good man, you must be a good man. If you want to be a wise man, you must be a wise man. If you want to be a fool, yo…"

"What, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? It is the same as that of a vine: leaves, then a blossom, then a ripe cluster. So here, first an appearance, then an impulse, then an act. And the fruit is…"