The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.