She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.