In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

I could see peace instead of this.

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.