Collected sayings of Shinsei

Below is a few collected sayings from the Tao of Shinsei. There are many more known in the Empire, and few know the entire Tao by heart.

Shinsei once said...

​1. When darkness descends, a man must find allies in the shadows.

2. It takes a wise man to see an obstacle as it truly is and not as it appears to be.

3. Brave men may be forgotten; brave deeds never so.

4. … for the more corrupt the soul, the more painful it becomes to look upon the pure. So it is with crystal and jade and the creatures of the dark lands. Remember this, Hantei, for it will one day save your life.

5. A clear mind can topple even the strongest will.

6. There are no secrets. There is no understanding. Void is all and nothing. It is the dance of the elements.

7. In order to choose the correct path, you must know the pitfalls that await you.

8. Knowing your advantages does you no good if your enemy is able to keep you from employing them.

9. Friendship is truly tested when it is time to share the burden.

10. One must learn to see what is to be seen and to see through what others wish you to see.

11. The way of darkness always brings great power. The way of darkness always brings a great price.

12. Only the face of all that is and is not can reveal the truth.

13. It is the sound of purest harmony, the sound of the universe. Make your soul sing its song, and you will find there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

14. Following a false light only leads you deeper into darkness

15. Desperate men employ desperate measures.

16. Your soul - your life energy - is not bound by flesh. It can reach where your fingers cannot.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">17. Petting scorpions with a compassionate hand only gets you a sting.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">18. You need no armor; you need no sword. You need only to know that you cannot be defeated.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">19. When your enemy is certain you cannot act, victory is within your reach.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">20. The only true test of courage is the last one.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">21. While others lament on what they should have done, the wise man prepares for what he should do next.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">22. Guard your word carefully, for you own every word you speak.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">23. You cannot balance the elements while you are without balance.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">24. Destiny does not believe in secrets. When something is meant to be, it is obvious to all but the foolish.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">25. A sagacious general, armed with the knowledge of his enemy, will be able to act as is he knows his enemy's every thought.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">26. The higher you stand above modesty, the easier it becomes to lose your footing.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">27. Winds blow, nations change, fortunes rise and fall, but the simple folk will always be asked to shoulder the weight.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">28. We tell the tales of heroes to remind ourselves that we also can be great.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">29. Every journey begins with a single step. Step well, and your journey will be filled with fortune. Step poorly, and it will be wrought with disaster.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">30. You cannot live while hiding from life.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">31. A handful of wealth is worth a handful of dust when compared to the riches a samurai's family gives to him.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">32. You own every word you speak

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">33. A courageous man has no need to be cruel.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">34. While you rest, your enemy practices

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">35. The truth of the world can be found sitting at the riverside. The river never begins, the river never ends. All of life is like the river. Lessons never begin and lessons never end.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">36. Hesitation is the seed of defeat

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">37. Every day of his life a man has only one judge, and that judge is himself

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">38. A man must find his place in life, or he is a wandering fool, never content, never at peace, bringing discord with him wherever he goes

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">39. Held in a hand you trust, it is your ally. Held in a hand you do not trust, it is your enemy.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">40. Learn the way of fire and you learn the way of the world.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">41. The wind moves with such subtlety, you do not even notice your own breathing. Be aware. Only a fool knows the wind is empty.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">42. Earth is the virtue of resilience and temperance. Only by understanding how to hold one's strength can one release it properly. Fire is the virtue of purity of action. Only action without the weight of thought will be as that of fire. Water is deep and strong and fluid. Only by understanding the strength of water can one's mind be pure and deep and fluid and strong. Air is the subtle touch. Only by understanding the shifting winds can one understand the shifting pulse of the heart and the world around him. Void is last. It is all and it is none. You cannot understand the secret of void; you must know it.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">43. You cannot command the elements any more than you can command the stars in heaven. You must learn to hear the music of the celestial chorus. Once that is done, you must learn to dance

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">44. 'What is the deepest truth?' the Emperor asked Shinsei. Shinsei smiled and said, 'Everything I have taught you is wrong. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">'

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">45. Only when you are in the grave will you have nothing more to learn.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">46. The worst enemy is the absence of hope

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">47. A monk asked Shinsei, 'What are the teachings of a lifetime?' Shinsei said to him, 'An appropriate statement

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">48. True nobility comes not from being superior to another man, but from being superior to your past

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">49. Shinsei said, 'Who binds you?' The Emperor said, 'No one binds me - I am the Emperor...' 'A contradiction in itself.' said the monk with a smile

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">50. It is honorable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">51. A person overwhelmed still lives, a person dishonored died long before their heart ceases to beat

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">52. The truth is always simple. Liars make things complicated

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">53. In each beginning is the thread of an ending, and each story must have a conclusion. In each cradle is the shadow of the grave <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">54. To serve the Tao is to serve the Empire. The one cannot be parted from the other, no more than the sea can be parted with the land

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">55. There is no such thing as coincidence. There are only auspicious occasions

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">56. What you call 'I' is merely a door that moves when you inhale and exhale

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">57. Do not judge a man by the lord he serves. Judge him by his choice of enemies

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">58. The words of the Tao are simple. Following the Tao is complex. So does the simple show the outward things, the complex reveals the soul.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">59. Do not be wary of men who take risks with title and lands. Be wary of men who have nothing to lose <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">60. Sometimes the downfall of the houses hinges on the fumble of a wrist

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">61. If a general is wise, he knows that a single man can halt an entire army

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">62. When you are doing one thing, be concerned with that one thing and nothing else. Distraction breeds disaster.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">63. Wisdom can be found in many places, but you must always begin at home

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">64. Courage may feed a man’s soul, but it is rice that feeds his belly, and an army cannot move on courage alone.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">65. A wise man does not fear long knives, but knives that may only strike close.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">66. There are subtler strategies and deadlier battlefields than even I know.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">67. When ten thousand men clash with arms and fire, it is always a single man’s actions that make the difference.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">68. There cannot be two suns in the heavens or two Emperors on earth.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">69. Wherever there is light, there must be shadow.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">70. One must bow to offer help to a fallen man

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">71. The elements are not the means to an end … they are the beginning and the end

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">72. An ocean to a small stream, the leader to his people, this is the Tao to the world

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">73. At times, the voice of peace must ring like Thunder.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">74. A black heart hides many secrets. The blackest heart hides the deadliest secret of all.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">75. Appreciation of beauty is the beginning of wisdom.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">76. Study what the pine and cherry blossom can teach. Man is not the only keeper of enlightenment.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">77. Two men can brave what one man cannot.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">78. You can steal a samurai’s weapon and armor, but you can never steal his honor.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">79. Those with pure purpose have the strength to never fail

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">80. In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert’s there are few.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">81. Wisdom comes in finding the opportunities that dilemmas provide.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">82. You cannot catch the moon in a lake. You cannot destroy what you cannot find

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">83. If you are willing to sacrifice yourself for all things, then you can be trusted with the world

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">84. When the way comes to an end, then change, and having changed, pass through

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">85. *You do not have to outrun the bear. You must only outrun your friend.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">86. It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">87. Running a country is like cooking fish. Don’t over do it.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">88. *Do not take a poor man into your home and expect him to pay.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">89. Those who stand alone, fall alone.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">90. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">91. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">92. The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">93. It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">94. He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">95. To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">96. We don't know yet about life, how can we know about death?

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">97. Mankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">98. If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">99. The Master said, (the good man) does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">100. Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">101. One excellent way to practice the rules of propriety is to be natural. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">102. When truth and right go hand in hand, a statement will bear repetition.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">103. Sorrow not because men do not know you; but sorrow that you do not know men.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">104. To govern simply by statute and to maintain order by means of penalties is to render the people evasive and devoid of a sense of shame.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">105. If you observe what people take into their hands, observe the motives, note what gives them satisfaction; then will they be able to conceal from you what they are?

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">106. When you know a thing, maintain you know it; when you do not, acknowledge it. This is the characteristic of knowledge.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">107. Let The leader of men promote those who have ability, and instruct those who have it not, and they will be willing to be led.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">108. To see what is right and not to do it, that is cowardice.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">109. The superior man is not contentious. He contends only as in competitions of archery; and when he wins he will present his cup to his competitor.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">110. A man without charity in his heart, what has he to do with ceremonies? A man without charity in his heart, what has he to do with music?

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">111. He who has sinned against Heaven has none other to whom his prayer may be addressed.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">112. Tell me, is there anyone who is able for one whole day to apply the energy of his mind to virtue? It may be that there are such, but I have never met with one.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">113. If we may learn what is right in the morning, we should be content to die in the evening.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">114. The scholar who is intent upon learning the truth, yet is ashamed of his poor clothes and food, is not worthy to be discoursed with.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">115. It is as hard to be poor without complaining as to be rich without becoming arrogant.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">116. The superior men are sparing in their words and profuse in their deeds.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">117. My great concern is not with men who do not know me, but with men who cannot understand me.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">118. Shinseiwas asked, "What say you of the remark, 'Repay enmity with kindness'?" And he replied, "How then would you repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, and enmity with justice."

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">119. Not to teach a man who can be taught, is to waste a man; to teach a man who cannot be taught, is a waste of words. The wise will lose neither men nor words.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">120. A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">121. I have not yet met the man who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">122. Shinsei was asked, "Is there one word that sums up the basis of all good conduct?" And he replied, "Is not 'reciprocity' that word? What you yourself do not desire do not put before others."

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">123. Not to react after committing an error is in itself an error.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">124. The superior man may not be conversant with petty details, yet can be entrusted with important matters; the inferior man may be conversant with petty details yet cannot be entrusted with important matters.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">125. Three things the superior man guards against: lust of the flesh in youth, combativeness in maturity, and ambition in old age.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">126. Only the supremely wise and the abysmally ignorant do not change.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">127. Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">128. What harm can a man do to the sun or the moon by wishing to stop either in its course? It only shows that he knows not his own limitations.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">129. Shinsei was asked, "What say you are the essentials of good government?" He answered, "The ruler should esteem the five excellences and avoid the four evils. The five excellences are: plenitude without extravagance; taxation without exciting discontent; desire without covetousness; dignity without haughtiness; majesty without fierceness. The four evils to be avoided are: without instruction in the law, to inflict punishment - that is tyranny; without proper warning to expect perfect adherence - that is oppression; late in giving orders and expecting early obedience - that is robbery; to tax and to spend in a stingy manner - that is a misuse of government function."

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">130. He who does not recognize the existence of a Divine Law cannot be a superior man.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">131. Chop wood, carry water.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">132. Before a person studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after Enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">133. The willow is green; flowers are red.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">134. The flower is not red, nor the willow green.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">135. The raindrops patter on the Basho leaf, but these are not the tears of grief; this is only the anguish of him who is listening to them.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">136. Lovely snow flakes, they fall nowhere else!

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">137. Everything the same; everything distinct.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">138. If you meet on the way a man who knows, Don't speak a word, - don't keep silent!

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">139. If the waves of the Zen stream were alike, innumerable ordinary people would get bogged down.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">140. Say one word with your mouth shut!

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">141. Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">142. Catch the vigorous horse of your mind.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">143. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and is made up of our thoughts.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">144. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the cart; if a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, as a shadow that never leaves him.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">145. Hatred is not diminished by hatred at any time. Hatred is diminished by love - this is the eternal law.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">146. As rain breaks through an ill-thatched roof, so lust breaks through the ill-trained mind.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">147. The evildoer mourns in this world, and he mourns in the next - he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil results of his own deeds.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">148. Thoughtfulness is the road to heaven; thoughtlessness, the road to death.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">149. The thoughtful do not die; the thoughtless are as if dead already.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">150. By thoughtfulness, by restraint and self-control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">151. Fools follow vanity; but the wise man prizes his thoughtfulness as a treasure.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">152. If a man's faith is unstable and his peace of mind troubled, his knowledge will not be perfect.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">153. Man, whose body is as fragile as a jar, should make his thoughts firm as a fortress.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">154. He who knows that his body is like froth and as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-tipped arrow of the Great Tempter and never see the King of Death.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">155. Like a beautiful flower full of color but without scent are the fair words of him who himself does not act accordingly.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">156. The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the fragrance of good people travels even against the wind.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">157. Even upon a heap of rubbish the lotus will grow full of sweet perfume and delight; even so the true disciple of the enlightened Buddha will shine forth among the people who walk in darkness.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">158. Long is the night to him who is wakeful; long is the mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">159. "These sons belong to me and this wealth belongs to me" - with such thoughts the fool tries to console himself. He himself does not belong to himself, how much less his sons and wealth!

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">160. The deed of which a man must repent, and the results of which he receives with tears, is not well done; the deed which a man does not repent, and the results of which he receives with joy, is well done.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">161. An evil deed, like freshly drawn milk, does not turn sour at once.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">162. As long as the evil deed done does not bear fruit, the fool thinks it is like honey; but when it ripens, then he suffers.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">163. The fool wishes for precedence among the monk, for lordship in the monasteries, for honor among other people.

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">164. If you can meet a man who can show you what is to be avoided and knows how to administer reproof, follow him as you would follow a man who can reveal hidden treasures

<span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">165. As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise man does not waver before blame or praise. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">166. If, whether for his own sake or for the sake of others, a man neither wishes for a son, nor wealth, nor leadership, and if he does not wish for any success by unfair means, he is a good and wise man. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">167. Few there are among men who arrive at the other shore; most of them run up and down this shore. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">168. Those whose minds are well-grounded in the seven elements of knowledge, who cling to nothing with rejoicing, who curb their appetites and are full of light, they gain Nirvana even in this world. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">169. Though a man go out to battle a thousand times against a thousand men, if he conquers himself he is the greater conqueror. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">170. Not even a god can change into defeat the victory of a man who has vanquished himself. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">171. If a man commits a sin, let him not do it again; let him not delight in it, for the accumulation of evil is painful. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">172. Even if the water falls drop by drop, it will fill the pot; and the fool will become full of evil, even though he gathers it little by little. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">173. Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not even in the clefts of the mountains is there a spot in the whole world where, if a man abide there, death could not overtake him. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">174. All men tremble at punishment and all men fear death; remember that you are like them and do not kill nor cause slaughter. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">175. Not nakedness, not matted locks, not dirt or fasting or sleeping on the bare earth, or sitting motionless can purify a man who has not overcome his doubts. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">176. One's own self is the most difficult to subdue. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">177. Self is the lord of self. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">178. The pure and impure stand and fall by their own deeds; no one can purify another. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">179. He whose evil deeds are covered by good deeds brightens up the world, like the moon when freed from clouds. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">180. Not to blame, not to strike, to be moderate in eating, to sleep and sit alone, and to dwell on the highest thoughts - this is the teaching of the Awakened. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">181. Men, driven by fear, go to many refuges - to the mountains, to the forests, to groves of sacred trees - but none delivers him from his pains. But he who takes refuge with Buddha - who sees the Four Holy Truths and follows the Eightfold Holy Path - he will be delivered from pain. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">182. We live happily, indeed, among men who hate us, free from hatred; among men who are greedy, free from greed. Though we call nothing our own, we shall be like the bright gods, feeding on happiness. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">183. Victory breeds hatred. He who has given up both victory and defeat, he is contented and happy. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">184. There is no fire like passion; there is no evil like hatred; there is no pain like this body; there is no happiness greater than peace. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">185. He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquility becomes free from fear and free from sin. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">186. From pleasure come grief and fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">187. Kinsmen, friends and lovers (well-wishers) salute a man who has been away for a long time and returns safe from afar; likewise his good works receive a man when he comes from this world to the other. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">188. No suffering befalls the man who calls nothing his own. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">189. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot is a real driver; others are but holding the reins. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">190. Let a man overcome greed with liberality and lies with truth. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">191. By these three steps you will come near to the gods: speak the truth; do not yield anger; give even though you have but a little to give. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">192. There is an old saying: they blame him who sits silent; they blame him who speaks much; they blame him who says little. There is no one in the world who does not get blamed. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">193. Life is easy to live for a man who is without shame, bold as a crow, a mischief-maker, insulting, arrogant and dissolute. But life is hard to live for a man who is modest, always looks for what is pure, free from attachment, unassuming, and clear of vision. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">194. You yourself must make the effort. The Buddhas are only teachers. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">195. All created things perish; he who knows and sees this is at peace in a world of pain. All existing things in this world are unreal; he who knows and sees this is beyond the thrall of grief. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">196. Cut down the whole forest of desire, not just one tree only. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">197. "Here I shall dwell in the winter and summer, here I shall dwell in the rain" - so the fool thinks, but does not think of death. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">198. If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, the wise man will leave the small pleasures to look at the great. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">199. Good people shine from afar, like the peaks of the Himalayas. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">200. The passion of a heedless man grows like a creeper, and he runs from life to life, like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">201. The gift of the Law exceeds all gifts; the sweetness of the Law exceeds all sweetness; the delight in the Law exceeds all delight; the extinction of all desire overcomes all suffering. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">202. Without knowledge there is no meditation, without meditation there is no knowledge. He who has knowledge and meditation is near to Nirvana. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">203. You already know what you need. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">204. You need to unlearn what you have learned before you can understand. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">205. What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">206. A monk came to Shinsei. Shinsei said, "Make your bows." The monk did so and sat up. Shinsei then gave him a poke with his staff and the monk reacted a little. Shinsei said, "You're not blind then," and told him to come nearer. The monk did so. Shinsei said, "You're not deaf then," and added, "Do you understand?" The monk replied, "No." Shinsei said, "Aha! You're not dumb I see." The monk then realized the meaning. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">207. Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">208. If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">209. The way a man talks reveals his character <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">210. Knowledge itself is power <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">211. As you sow so will you reap <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">212. Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">213. It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">214. As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">215. But who will guard the guardians themselves? <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">216. Let him love tomorrow who has never loved and let he who has loved love tomorrow <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">217. It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">218. Even one hair has a shadow <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">219. When they make a desolation they call it peace <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">220. If you want peace prepare for war <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">221. Love conquers all, and let us yield to it <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">222. Hell calls hell <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">223. Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">224. Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">225. The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">226. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">227. All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">228. It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">229. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">230. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">231. The beginning is the most important part of the work. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">232. If virtue precede us every step will be safe. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">233. It is pleasant at times to play the madman. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">234. He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">235. In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">236. Look with favour upon a bold beginning. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">237. O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">238. It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">239. Fortune favors the brave. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">240. In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.' <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">241. Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">242. Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">243. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">244. Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">245. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">246. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">247. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">248. Evil draws men together. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">249. Nothing endures but change. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">250. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">251. Every man is the architect of his own fortune. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">252. True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">253. You either live in hope, or you live in despair. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">254. Our lives are measured not by gain but giving. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">255. Do not enter with defeat in your heart for that is the first victory of evil. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">256. The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">257. Courage is not the chance to challenge fear, but the chance to do what is right. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">258. The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">259. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">260. If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">261. Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">262. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">263. Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">264. Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">265. Little by little, one travels far. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">266. It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">267. It's a dangerous business going out your front door. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">268. Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">269. Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">270. It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">271. There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">272. Beware the man of one book. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">273. Patience is the companion of wisdom. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">274. You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">275. The Master said, (the good man) does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">276. If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">277. Mankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">278. We don't know yet about life, how can we know about death? <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">279. To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the true meaning of knowledge <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">280. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">281. Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">282. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">283. He who will not economize will have to agonize. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">284. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">285. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">286. The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">287. To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">288. When anger rises, think of the consequences. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">289. When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">290. Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">291. By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">292. Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">293. Have no friends not equal to yourself. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">294. He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">295. He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">296. He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">297. Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">298. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">299. I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">300. If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">301. If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">302. Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">303. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">304. Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">305. The cautious seldom err. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">306. The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">307. The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">308. The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">309. The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">310. The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">311. The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">312. The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">313. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">314. The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">315. The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">316. There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">317. Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">318. To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">319. To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">320. Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">321. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">322. What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">323. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">324. When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">325. When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">326. When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">327. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">328. While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death? <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">329. With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">330. Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">331. When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">332. The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">333. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">334. Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">335. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">336. He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">337. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">338. There are two rules on the spiritual path: <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">Begin and Continue. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">339. The answers of the wise may anger the fool, but the questions of the fool should never anger the wise. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">340. What is most useful in the cup: what is there, or what is not? <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">341. Petting scorpions with a compassionate hand only gets you a sting <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">342. The most difficult act in that world is to sit still <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">343. Be more concerned with good actions than great ones <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">344. Friendship is tested when it is time to share the burden <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">345. Distant thunder tells of present danger <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">346. See obstacles as they truly are, not as they appear to be <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">347. The mountains never learned to step aside <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">348. following me footsteps will not lead you to what I found" <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">349. If Shinsei stands between you and Enlightenment, you will have to kill Shinsei. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">350. Every moment has a lesson for you to learn. Learn to listen. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">351. Hearts are the repositories of secrets. Lips are their locks and tongues are their keys. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">352. Treat everyone you meet as if they will die tomorrow. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">353. Choosing between two evils is still choosing evil. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">354. Prepare the tea and leave. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">355. Even a goblin is beautiful at eighteen. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">356. While you rest, your enemy practices. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">357. Those who choose to stand alone, fall alone. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">358. You can never bake the same cake twice. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">359. The only true test of courage is the last one <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">360. If you eat poison, don't forget to lick the dish. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">361. A gift is given for the purpose of receiving one. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">362. Suspect that all men are liars and that it will rain tomorrow. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">363. Truth and peace never live under the same roof. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">364. A face is never uglier than when it asks for praise. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">365. Friends do not hold on to the past, they hold on to each other. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">366. Nothing offends anger more than laughter. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">367. A courageous man has no need of weapons. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">368. One must bow to offer aid to a fallen man. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">369. My faults derive from my parents, my virtues are my own... How foolish is this ? <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">370. If you are walking, walk. If you are running, run. Never meander. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">371. Shintao, tea : same taste. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">372. Fear is afraid of laughter. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">373. Brave deeds may be forgotten. Brave men, never so. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">374. The child wants to grow old fast, the parents want to grow old slowly. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">375. The nail that sticks out is the one that gets pounded first. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">376. The price of greatness is paid by the great, but we all reap the benefit. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">377. What is written is not what is, only what is written. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">378. We only sympathize with pain when it is our own. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">379. Do not simply say that anything is true. Know it is true or stay silent. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">380. Five and two multiplied are ten, but added are only seven. Learn by doing. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">381. Kharma and shadows follow us all. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">382. Don't trust a man who doesn't know how to smile. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">383. If you only look for oranges at the top of the tree, you will go hungry. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">384. For every single achievement, there are one hundred people looking for merit. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">385. Fear is the measuring stick of ignorance. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">386. Don't use two hands when one is good enough. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">387. Criticism is kindness in disguise. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">388. The fortuneteller cannot tell his own fortune. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">389. Kindness is criticism in disguise. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">390. In all the world, man is the only creature that has taught itself to argue. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">391. Do not be concerned with any life but this one. One world at a time. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">392. Many hands make too much work. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">393. The simplest questions are the hardest to ask. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">394. Blink your eyes and eighty years will pass. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">395. Not all blooming flowers bear fruit <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">396. It is difficult enough to master yourself, let alone others. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">397. The most frightening truth is gained from the mirror. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">398. Do not look for life's meaning, only to live. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">399. Do everything as if you have nothing else to do. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">400. The bird does not care how it flies, and oh ! How it flies... <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">401. Many seek peace, but not many are ready to kill for it, even if only their own selves. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">402. No one is offended by praise, but many are fooled by it. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">403. A diversion is just that and nothing more. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">404. You cannot die well if you have lived poorly. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">405. A patient man learns quickly. An impatient man, not at all. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">406. If the well is bad, the village will die. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">407. You cannot speak of the lion's wrath until you have been under its claws. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">408. Do not become a parent when your child is born, become a child. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">409. Certainty murders possibility. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">410. Correct your mistakes quickly. Not correcting is the greatest mistake of all. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">411. Preparation is prevention. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">412. Metal is tested by fire, man by what he says. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">413. We tell the tales of heroes to remind ourselves that we also can be great. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">414. Every day of his life, a man has only on judge, and that judge is himself. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">415. Master the Way of the Earth, and you will find the virtue of the eternal mountains. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">416. Take away you enemy's foundation, and you will find he is not as threatening as he once was. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">417. Wisdom comes in finding the opportunities that dilemma's provide. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">418. In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">419. Those with pure purpose have the strength to never fall <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">420. Two men can brave what one man cannot. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">421. * Two monks were walking in the road when it began to rain. The old monk stood under a palm frond and carried it with him. The young apprentice said, “A brave man likes to feel nature on his face.” The old monk turned and said, “Yes, but a wise man knows to come out of the rain.” <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">422. Do not blame God for the Tiger. Just be thankful that he did not give him wings. <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">423. A Samurai was out walking when a large tiger began to chase him. The samurai ran for his life, never seeing the cliff under his feet. As he fell, he reached out and caught a vine that hung down. He looked down and saw another tiger circling below; the first tiger waited above. The vine began to give away. The samurai then saw a single strawberry growing on the vine. He reached out and ate the strawberry. How sweet it tasted! <span style="color:rgb(28,40,55);font-family:arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19px;">424. * When hugging Scorpions, be wary for then half of them is behind you.