Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
If you want to change the world, first change your heart.
If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.
It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.
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.
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.