Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.
When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.