The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.