Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.