If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

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

It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.