Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly