The thought that has given up the difference between the meditator and the meditation is like the candle in a windless place, concerned only with the object of meditation - this is the ultimate perfection "the cloud of virtue", as the gods call it. In this case, the man becomes liberated during his lifetime.
Softness defeats the soft, softness defeats the harsh. Nothing is inaccessible to softness. Softness is stronger than anything.
The sun is red both at sunrise and sunset. In both happiness and unhappiness, the great are unchanging.
Men can obtain on earth the best life, joy, glory, and every happiness, by the power of reason. And he who has a chosen character, inclinations, and conduct must please reason.
What is the basis of the eye? The pictures. But what is the basis of the image? Heart. What is the basis of faith? Heart.
Hope is the source of great anxiety, freedom from hope is the source of great rest.
Science is the solution to many doubts, it represents the ability to see the hidden, it is a window to everything.
Science makes you modest, only a fool boasts of his science. Thus, the light increases our vision and blinds the owls.
Do not take up any work - here is the first sign of wisdom. If you set out on a task, see it through to the end - here is the second sign of wisdom.
Do not be rude to anyone, because you will be answered in kind. An angry word produces pain, and punishment will overtake you.
Be neither too near nor too far from kings, fire, the aged, and women: if you are too near, they will destroy you; if you are too far away, they will be useless to you.
Be neither too rude, nor too stubborn, nor too soft, nor too argumentative, nor too angry. Excess in anything is dangerous: rudeness irritates people, stubbornness repels, softness gives rise to contempt, excessive argumentation upsets blind faith, unbelief leads to debauchery.
There was not, there is not, and there never will be a man worthy only to be condemned or only to be praised.
You can't see the bird's track in the sky, nor the fish's track in the water. So is the path of the virtuous.
Do not interfere in the affairs of husband and wife, do not interfere in the affairs of father and son.
What you don't like, someone else doesn't.
Think not of evil lightly: "He cometh not unto me." That the jug is filled drop by drop. The fool is filled with evil, little by little, and drop by drop.
The lute without strings does not play, the cart without wheels does not move, unhappy is the woman without a husband - even if she has a hundred generations.
The one-wheeled chariot does not move, destiny is not fulfilled without human efforts.
If the strong lacks confidence, he will not overcome the weak, and the weak, if he has confidence, will overcome the strong.
The strong will not overcome the weak, if they stick together; shrubs that grow close to each other are not afraid of the hurricane.
It is not proper for a wise man to speak ill of another in front of the crowd.
Wise counsel is of no use to him who fears action. What good is a candle in the hands of a blind man?
Do not tell about what you are up to: the project revealed to someone will be unsuccessful.
Don't rely on tomorrow until it comes, because no one knows what misfortunes it brings.
You do not make an orator out of the peltic, nor an industrious man out of the lazy, you do not make a wise man out of the ignorant, nor can you enlighten a fool.
Today, tomorrow, our body will perish in the midst of pains and diseases. Why ignore our duty for its sake?
Do not be angry with the one who embitters you, respond with gentleness to rudeness, do not talk in the desert and do not lie.
Do not give in to excessive desires, but do not repress all desires either.
Don't do anything that could torment you on your deathbed because life only lasts a moment.