If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.