The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
Where one despises, one cannot wage war.