Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.