First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

Humanity is the equity of the heart.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

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