What Disturbs People, These Are Not Things,

To Be Getting An Education Means This: To Be Learning What Is Your Own, And What Is Not Your Own.

Don't Just Say You Have Read Books. Show That Through Them You Have Learned To Think Better, To Be A More Discriminating And Reflective Person. Books Are The Training Weights Of The Mind. They Are Very Helpful, But It Would Be A Bad Mistake To Suppose That One Has Made Progress Simply By Having Internalized Their Contents." Translation By Sharon Lebell

What Thou Avoidest Suffering Thyself Seek Not To Impose On Others.

It Is Not My Place In Society That Makes Me Well Off, But My Judgements, And These I Can Carry With Me... These Alone Are My Own And Cannot Be Taken Away.

Man Is Not Fully Free Unless He Is Master Of Himself.