It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly