Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
All people are the same; only their habits differ.
He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.