Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.