In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.