Read not to contradict and confute； nor to believe and take for granted； nor to find talk and discourse； but to weigh and consider.

The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.

做好了官，有余力就要学习，学习好了，有余力就去做官。

The dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.

我们都是一门手艺的学徒，没有人能成为大师。

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

In both arenas, because the body is predominant and vulnerable, the mind becomes an instrument of silent, uninvolved assessment.

The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced.