The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

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