There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

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

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?