The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.