Great Throughts Treasury

"Worse than four hundred and four illnesses is the disease of poverty."

"Work the fields on a fine day, study on a rainy day."

"Women have no homes of their own in the Three States of Existence."

"You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice."

"You will lack nothing if you think privation is always with you."

"You can know ten things by learning one."

"You cannot catch a tiger cub unless you enter the tiger's den."

"Youth easily grows old yet becomes learned with difficulty."