If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.