Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.
To know and not do, is to not yet know.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)