When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.

The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

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

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.