A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

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.

To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?