The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
If you would judge, understand.
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
A thousand approaches lie open to death.