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

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.