Excess weakens the spirits.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

An angry person is always full of poison.

Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.