The only way to have a friend is to be one.
求知若饥,虚心若愚。
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
现在王公大人从事于音乐,损害夺取人民的衣食之资,仅从命人听乐这一点来看就已经很厉害了。 
"We are all prisoners of our own making, trapped by the stories we tell ourselves."