A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
A man of wisdom delights in water.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
Rotten wood cannot be carved.