How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

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