Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.