Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.