To think twice is quite enough.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?