"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from…"

"Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, the…"

"That which is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee."

"Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."