Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.