Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

The cautious seldom err.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

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