The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.