Man's enemies are not demons but human beings like himself.

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt I should not believe.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains, but like them they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

If the parent is a drunkard a gambler and a cheat no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.

I schooled in misery know many purifying rites and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

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