He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

He who chases two rabbits, catches none.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

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

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.