The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.