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

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.