If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

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

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.