The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.