The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

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?

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.