I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

The glory is for those who deserve.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.