The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

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

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.