Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
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.
Enemies strike at weak points.
He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.