The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.