When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.

Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.