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

roads were made for journeys not destinations

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.