Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.