In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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.

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

life without love, is no life at all