When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.