Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.