I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

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