Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
What is necessary is to rectify names.
To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.