A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

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