The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

I never really said all those things I said

Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.