Art of Wisdom

“Be neither hard enough to break your surroundings, nor soft enough to encourage others.”

“Your relationship with people should be like your relationship with fire. Don't move too far away and you will freeze, don't move too close and you will burn.”

“In the universe where even the sun is a mote, it is not decent to think of oneself as great.”

“The person who makes a hasty decision will suffer disappointments that he will regret a thousand times in the end; it is necessary to think while stretching the bow, not after shooting the arrow.”

“If you are happy with yourself, you have no problems with anyone.”

“The wrong style is the executioner of the right word. How you say it is much more important than what you say.”

“Even if you do a thousand right things, people will look for one wrong thing and talk about it.”

“It is better to sit and eat your own bread than to wear a golden belt and stand in front of a person.”

“Do not raise your children like lambs, so that they will not be herded like sheep in the future.”

“No matter how much you read, if you do not act in a manner befitting your knowledge, you are ignorant.”

“Mature and wise people do not have an iota of arrogance. The branch of a tree with much fruit bows its head to the ground.”

“He does not ask so that he may know, he would know if he asked. He does not know that he should ask, but if he knew, he would ask.”

“If the ruler does not turn a blind eye, bandits cannot raid a caravan.”