There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.
Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
The person of benevolence never worries.
When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.