Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life
Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.
If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.
I never really said all those things I said