To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

Be in harmony, yet be different.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.