Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.