It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.