When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living
When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.
The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.