A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.

Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.