“We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.”

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Action achieves more than words.

Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Death is the only water to wash away this dirt.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

No one who lives in error is free.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come.

Who then will dare to say I’m weak or timid? No, they’ll say I’m loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.

Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

I’ve found you at last like a diamond glowing high in the endless sky.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.

The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

These walls are so high, but I refuse to be a prisoner of my past.

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can’t rate her highly enough.

The highest priority you can have is education.