If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

What is necessary is to rectify names.

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

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

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.