You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.

He who chases two rabbits, catches none.

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.