Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

Every man knows the smell of his own fart.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

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.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.