By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?