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

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.