What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.
There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.