A Small Basket of Words

 1. No one in this world is more wretched than a man burdened with consciousness.
  
 2. Feeling alone—that is the single thing that divides man from beast.
  
 3. Not only the emotionless man becomes hollow; the overly emotional man, too, rings just as empty.
  
 4. Bear pain long enough, and peace itself becomes a wound.
  
 5. The one who sells the salve for pain—that salve does not work for him alone!
  
 6. The clock's hand is life's greatest friend.
  
 7. Honesty takes courage to swallow; courage, in turn, demands honesty. What a strange chain it is!
  
 8. Never argue with a schoolteacher or a rickshaw driver—these two kinds of men will have none of it.
  
 9. Your brother is not my brother,
   very well.
   But your brother becoming my brother-in-law—
   you remember that, don't you?
  
 10. Only when a man sacrifices his very last possession—that alone deserves to be called love.