Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

What is necessary is to rectify names.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.