What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I never really said all those things I said

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.