Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.