Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.