The love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path.

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.