Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.