Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.