It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.