By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.
Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.