Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.
The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.