To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

An angry person is always full of poison.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

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

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.