He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
He would make a lovely corpse.
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.