Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few.

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.