Try As One May, It Is Impossible

If You Wish Me Well, Do Not Stand Pitying Me, But Lend Me Some Succour As Fast As You Can; For Pity Is But Cold Comfort When One Is Up To The Chin In Water, And Within A Hair's Breadth Of Starving Or Drowning.

Persuasion Is Better Than Force.

Example Is The Best Precept.

Better A Long Life Of Toil Than A Short One Of Ease.

Those Who Voluntarily Put Power Into The Hands Of A Tyrant ... Must Not Wonder If It Be At Last Turned Against Themselves.