“Of the honoured and highly placed, there are none greater than those who possess wealth and rank. Nevertheless, with respect to creating use and making tools helpful to the whole world, there is no one greater than the wise.”
“Writing cannot express wording completely. Wording can not express thinking completely. Are we then unable to see the thoughts of the wise?”
“The wise sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks; he makes his relations firm before he asks for something.”