All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

An angry man is full of poison.