Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

The superior man limits his achievements.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.