There is no small pleasure in pure water.
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.
The result proves the wisdom of the act.