Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.