Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments
I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.