Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

Appetite comes with eating.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.