We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

I could see peace instead of this.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.