One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire