Don't let your past determine your destiny.

A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.