Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.