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

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

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

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.