The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

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.

Every man knows the smell of his own fart.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?