If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life