Every journey starts with a single step.

See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

He who chases two rabbits, catches none.

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.