As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.