If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

An angry man is full of poison.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

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

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.