When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?