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

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.