The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
To love a thing means wanting it to live.
Make fair agreements and stick to them
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.