He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.