Do not kick people when they are down because you will surely fall right beside them.

The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.

It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

In order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.

You have to realize what you don't know before you can learn about it.

If life was a piece of cake, it wouldn't be worth eating!

Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.