If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

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.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.