It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.