What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

Everynbody tries not to reveal his weaknesses, so that he may not be ridiculed. Specially before the enemy. One's weakpoits shold not be revealed. Becaues ohe canstrike on those to ruin us. So one shold remain strong before the enemy.

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.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.