Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

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

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?