A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.

If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.