When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

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

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.

Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.