True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.