Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.