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

Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously

He who kisses girl on hillside is not level

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.