Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion!

When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!

For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!

Love with freedom is superior to both the freedom without love and the love without freedom!

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

Every king needs a counsellor, a counsellor who is never afraid of the king.

If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!