The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets..

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be..

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish..

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body..

No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target..

Be not in the desire of thine own ease..

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man..

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow..

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice..

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home..

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store..

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together..

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion..

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good..

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow.

If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation..

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human..

All is going well so far. There are some remarks here and there and there are some complaints here and there but we expect to resolve those questions….

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed..

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings..