To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure.

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail