Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
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.
An angry man is full of poison.
To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.