If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?
Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
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.