Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.