If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.