Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?