Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.