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.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.