The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.