Respect of parents curbs the spirit and restrains vices. Day's Collacon

The word 'service' comes from serving, and serving means being dependent. Beware of Pity

How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago! Book VII

“Vasudeva rose. “It is late,” he said, “let’s go to sleep. I can’t tell you that other thing, oh friend. You’ll learn it, or perhaps you know it already. See, I’m no learned man, I have no special skill in speaking, I also have no special skill in thinking. All I’m able to do is to listen and to be godly, I have learned nothing else. If I was able to say and teach it, I might be a wise man, but like this I am only a ferryman, and it is my task to ferry people across the river.” ” Siddhartha