Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

Don't let your past determine your destiny.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail