The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death