“A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.”

“The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.”

“Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.”

“There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does...”

“The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.”

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”