All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
The most eloquent seems to stutter.
Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.