The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.

If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.