Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
Study the past if you want to define the future.
One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find.
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.