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

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.