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.

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

Return good for good; return evil with justice.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.