If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.