When desire dies, fear is born.
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
Hurry is the weakness of fools.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.