If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

The end is important in all things.

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.

It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.