All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.