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

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.