Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.