When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

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

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.