All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.