Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.