The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and penance.

Make foes of bowmen if you must,
Never of penmen.

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --
Likewise a foe's tears.

It is politics to please and hoodwink those
Who flatter but despise us.

A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.