A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.
For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.