Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.