When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.
Behind every smile there's teeth.
Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.