Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

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.