The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.