In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.