Put faith in one who's had experience.
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem