Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.