When the wind blows,the grass bends.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

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

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.