For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.

To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

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

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

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.

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