The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.