To know and not do, is to not yet know.

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.