I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

An angry man is full of poison.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.

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.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.