Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.