It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.