It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.