Words are the voice of the heart.
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.
Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.
Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.