Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.