One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.