When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
Woman is the masterpiece.