If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.