Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.