Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.