If you desire ease, forsake learning.
If you desire learning, forsake ease."

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness:
Either he abandons all earthly interests
Or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

"This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions."

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."