Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.
There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.
A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.