Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

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

I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.