With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

He who kisses girl on hillside is not level