Keeping plenty of gold and ...

Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

Quotes from the same author

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.