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.

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

Heaven means to be one with God.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.