Do not pursue what is illusory

- property and position.

All that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade
and can be confiscated in one fell night.

Live with a steady superiority over life.

Don't be afraid of misfortune,
and do not yearn after happiness;
it is after all, all the same.

The bitter doesn't last forever,
and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

Aliens

THEORY

We are the aliens.

You know how Britain used to send it's criminals to Australia, a distant island, and how that country is founded by convicts.

Well the civilised societies of the Galaxy found a little island right on the outer rim and sent them all here.

We are the descendents of the insane troublemakers of the civilised galaxy.

Temet nosce

Only the shallow know themselves.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths.

You never reach it,
because there is always something more to say.