The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.