If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.

those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.