Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!