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.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.