Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.