The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.