The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.