A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.