The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.

Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.