If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.