The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

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

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.