If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.