When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

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.

It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.