Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

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

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.