To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.