If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.
Time flows away like the water in the river.
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.