The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?