The teachings of elegant sayings
Should be collected when one can.
For the supreme gift of words of wisdom,
Any price will be paid."

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

"Method is more important than strength . . . By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed to have a passerby kill the snake for the beads."

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

"If you are truly persevering in virtue,
What is the place of a haughty attitude?
The cow which has no milk will not be purchased,
Even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell."