The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.
He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.
The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.