Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.
In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.