The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments
The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.
A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.