The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.

Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.