Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

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.