You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

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.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

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.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.