If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

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

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.