When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.