This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

If you are truly persevering in virtue, what is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has no milk will not be purchased, even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.