The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."

If we don't know life, how can we know death?