Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong