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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.