He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.
Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.
Conduct your triumph as a funeral.
Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}
Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!