When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.