For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.