If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.