The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.