Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.

The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.