Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.