Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.