The superior man limits his achievements.
Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
Be in harmony, yet be different.
If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.