“Do not keep the slanderer away,treat him with affection and honor:Body and soul, he scours all clean,babbling about this and that.”

“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”

“You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can't find anything. He's compulsive.”

“Honesty is not just keeping your ass away from people but also clean.”

“What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.”

“Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...”