Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.
What resists, persists.
The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.