Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.