Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong