To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.