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.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

Machination is worth more than force.

According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.