The object of the superior man is truth.

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.

Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.