The friendship that can cease has never been real.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.