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

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.