"Don't lift the pot to stop it boiling; remove some fuel. Don't stand over a deep pool hungering for fish; step back and fashion a net." Sentence by sentence and character by character, he memorized the old adages.
膽欲大，而心欲小」，「揚湯止沸，不如去火抽薪；臨淵羨魚，不若退而結網… …」，他一字一句背誦出來。