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.

If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.

An angry man is full of poison.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire